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Overview'Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny ... An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy; I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pages' GuardianFrom the prolific poet, activist and writer Eileen Myles, a ""Working Life"" unerringly captures the measure of life. Exploring permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder, these poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog during the pandemic lockdowns. Their lines unabashedly sing the happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings about the not-so-future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring for one another and our world. With intelligence, heart and singular vision, a ""Working Life"" shows Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eileen MylesPublisher: Atlantic Books Imprint: Grove Press Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9781804710357ISBN 10: 1804710350 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 04 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsRuthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny ... An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy; I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pages * Guardian * Myles's poetry is kinetic, ecstatic, muscular, hilarious, sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary and timeless. -- Maggie Nelson Eileen Myles's essential poetry is the hip kid leaning against their locker secretly burning with intensity, the smartest boy in the class who doesn't care he has a scar down his face, the thing you just wish you'd said. -- Lena Dunham I loved Evolution . . . Poems that lope along, chatty, restless and limber -- Olivia Laing Author InformationEileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include Pathetic Literature, For Now (an essay/talk about writing), Evolution, Afterglow (a dog memoir), I Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems and Chelsea Girls. The Trip, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |