Evolution, Eileen Myles
Evolution, Eileen Myles
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Evolution

Author: Eileen Myles

Narrator: Eileen Myles

Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2019


Synopsis

The first all-new collection of poems since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets―and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice―here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts―like nobody else―the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem:Something
unearthly
about
today
so I buy
a Diet Coke &
a newspaper
a version of “me”
something
about me on the
earth & its sneakers
& feeling like
the earth’s furniture
but that can’t be
true or like
the coke & the Times
it’s true for a little
while.

About Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Afterglow (a dog memoir), Inferno (a poet’s novel), Chelsea Girls, and Cool For You. Myles’s many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, as well as grants from Creative Capital (nonfiction) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (poetry), and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vincent

Five stars for the introduction, the acceptance speech, and “Sweet Heart” alone.......more

Goodreads review by Maria

“Will I al- ways confuse a moment in my life for the rest of my life”......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

Truly the New York poet of our time, Myles' latest work is incomparably their best yet. A political commentary, a confession, a dedication to the ass (as we've seen before with Myles), Evolution is a collection on intimacy and how to deal with yourself throughout the Trump era.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

beautiful! I picked this book up almost by accident and now I will be going back and reading all of Myles' work......more