Eileen myles

The poet shares the titles she’d most want with her on a desert island.

Greg Masters and Eileen Myles on roof of 437 East 12th Street, taken for promotional flyer for reading, 10 x 8

To mark the publication of the writer's new collection of poems, "I Must Be Living Twice," we spoke to Eileen Myles about her decades-long journey from cult writer to feminist icon, sexism in publishing, and when she became cool.

It's the sultriness, / the smokey approach / of the loss of / light that I love. --From Twilight Train by Eileen Myles Photo by Annemarie Poyo Furlong, October 2008.

Eileen Myles’s new and selected poems are titled I Must Be Living Twice, a phrase that any poet past the midpoint and looking back might utter, surprised to find a fund of work on the page as robust and spontaneous as any “real” life she lived. But Myles’s poems set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match; and so in her work, the surprise second life is actually the one lived off the page, refracted through decades of Myles’s astonishingly vivid lines.

"Every time I read a new Eileen Myles book, I ended up carrying it on me for weeks. I think I'm going to end up with a good collection. I would never lose it."

Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles

How the author Eileen Myles started using Instagram as a visual diary of their dog and New York City, and stumbled upon new insights into artmaking and their writing.

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