Eileen Myles

Chelsea Girls es una novela autobiográfica de alto voltaje que narra las vivencias de juventud de Eileen Myles en la Nueva York de los años setenta y ochenta. Con una prosa explosiva, irreverente y honesta, Myles describe la escena underground con toda su crudeza, sus idas y venidas con el alcohol y las drogas, su consagracion a la poesia y su deseo y amor profundo por las mujeres.Con sentido del humor y frescura, alternando los recuerdos de una adolescencia agridulce en el seno de una familia catolica de clase trabajadora, con noches insomnes de fiesta, personajes imborrables y escenas de sexo perturbadoras, Myles construye un retrato de la formacion de un personaje que se niega a ser encasillado o a plegarse a convencion alguna.Chelsea Girls fue publicada originalmente en 1994 y a dia de hoy es un referente de libertad y experimentacion cuya lectura atrapa de forma magistral.

Referente ineludible de la contracultura de los ochenta, y del feminismo moderno y el activismo LGTBQ, Myles ha sabido perfilar una poética renovadora que combina trazas de oralidad, una fuerte impronta narrativa, y una urgencia y ferocidad heredaras del

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019New Statesmans best books of the year, 2018This new book of poems and essays by Eileen Myles finds our game-changing writer keying lines in the euphoric style that the New York Times has called one of the essential voices in American poetry.Following the critically claimed Afterglow (a dog memoir) and I Must Be Living Twice, their career-spanning selected poems, Evolution is Myles first all-new poetry collection since 2011s Snowflake/different streets. These new poems upend genre in a vernacular that enacts, like nothing else, the way we speak (inside and out today). From walking around Marfa and New York City with an orange pit bull to Eileens transcendent acceptance speech as President, Evolution lifts a can of Diet Coke as an End-of-the-World toast to embodiment, irreverence and risk.

Skinnys Book of the Year, 2018In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writers way of being. Over the course of sixteen years together, Myles was devoted to the pit bull and their linked quality of life. And starting from the emptiness following Rosies death, Afterglow launches a playful and incisive investigation into the mostly mutually beneficial, sometimes reprehensible power dynamics between pet and pet-owner. At the same time, it reimagines Myless experiences with alcoholism and recovery, intimacy and mourning, celebrity and politics, spirituality and family history, while joyously transcending the parameters of memoir.Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myless childhood puppet, to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull### from shimmering poetic transcriptions of video footage taken during their walks, to Rosies final enlightened narration from the afterlife, this totally singular text combines elements of science fiction, screenplay, monologue, and lucid memory to get to the heart of how and why we dedicate our existence to our dogs.

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artists life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young female writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity.Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls weaves together memories of Myless 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s and 80s New York.

Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny ... An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy### I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pagesGuardianThe first new poetry collection since Evolution from the peerless writer, activist and poet Eileen Myles, a "Working Life"captures the many dualities of human life: loneliness and companionship, city and country, youth and aging, travel and stasis, fear and wonder.a "Working Life" is a book rooted in the beauty of the everyday: the sweet accumulation of birds outside a window, a cup of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lovers foot on the bed. These poems travel widely in planes, trains and cars around the world and by foot across the terrain of the small rooms that held us during the pandemic lockdowns. In this collection Myles shows both the beauty and ridiculousness of love and sex, articulates the immense anxieties about the future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and also finds transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the radical human act of caring for one another and our world.With humour, beauty and singular vision, a "Working Life"shows Eileen Myles working at the height of their poetic and philosophical powers.

Chelsea Girls es una novela autobiográfica de alto voltaje que narra las vivencias de juventud de Eileen Myles en la Nueva York de los años setenta y ochenta. Con una prosa explosiva, irreverente y honesta, Myles describe la escena underground con toda su crudeza, sus idas y venidas con el alcohol y las drogas, su consagracion a la poesia y su deseo y amor profundo por las mujeres. Con sentido del humor y frescura, alternando los recuerdos de una adolescencia agridulce en el seno de una familia catolica de clase trabajadora, con noches insomnes de fiesta, personajes imborrables y escenas de sexo perturbadoras, Myles construye un retrato de la formacion de un personaje que se niega a ser encasillado o a plegarse a convencion alguna. Chelsea Girls fue publicada originalmente en 1994 y a dia de hoy es un referente de libertad y experimentacion cuya lectura atrapa de forma magistral.