Sorry, Tree
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933517204 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 83 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
All rights reserved. . From Publishers Weekly In her signature short, piercingly demotic lines, Myles (Skies) fiercely mines concatenated observations for the raw stuff: "it's like genitals/ I want to show you all these tiny parts." Myles has, by her own count, written "thousands of poems," and now finds information and aesthetic pleasure in almost anything: "I agree/ It's a good place to shit," or as a poem titled "Culture" puts it: "It accepts all/ marks & none/ So I'll just write/ into it." Myles's short descriptive bursts read like object lessons in an unfailing and unflinching fidelity to experience, which has its own rewards: "You are the candy melting/ in my mouth
Formerly the director of the St. Her books include Snowflake/different streets, Inferno, The Importance of Being Iceland, Skies, Maxfield Parrish, Not Me, and Chelsea Girls (stories).. Mark’s Poetry Project, as well as a write-in candidate for president in 1992, in 1997 Myles toured with Sister Spit’s Ramblin’ Road Show. One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literaturehonest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”Dennis CooperEileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. BUST magazine calls her the rock star of modern poetry” and The New York Times says she’s a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.”Myles’ trademark punk-lesbian sensibility and intimate knowledge of poetic tradition are at work in this eighth collection, where every love poem is political, and every political poem is, ultimately, about love.From Home”:I thought ifI inventoried home it would be broadmy eyes fling openlike a doll’sto the v