Product Description

Eileen Myles—lesbian, poet, polemicist, and ex–presidential candidate—writes the poetry of personal politics. She mixes the mundane preoccupations of daily life with inspired empowerment, to capture the tangential glare of our failing society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1155523 in Books
• Published on: 1991-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 202 pages

Review
"Not Me is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination."
—The Kenyon Review

"Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."
—Dennis Cooper, Artforum

"Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems."
—Village Voice

About the Author
Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.

Customer Reviews

NOT ME
here eileen myles does it again. her poetry is life. the words she uses and the form of expressions capture the essence of life. in its many forms.