With Liz Kotz, they co-edited the notorious The New Fuck You/adventures in lesbian reading, responding to the short-lived gay and lesbian publishing boom in the ’90s. Their books of poems include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York’s East Village and publishing in little magazines, zines and larger journals such as Partisan Review and Paris Review. Is she a ‘hunk’? A ‘dyke’? A ‘female’? I’ll tell you what she is––damn smart! Inferno burns with humor, lust and a healthy dose of neurotic happiness.” - John WatersĮileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 and soon began reading their poems publicly, taking workshops at St. “Eileen Myles debates her own self identity in a gruffly beautiful, sure voice of reason. Myles beautifully chronicles a lost Eden: ‘The place I found was carved out from sadness and sex and to write a poem there you merely needed to gather.’ ” - John Ashbery “Zingingly funny and melancholy, Inferno follows a young girl from Boston in her descent into the maelstrom of New York Bohemia, circa 1968. This narrative journey somehow takes place in a moment, every moment, the impossible present moment of poetry.” – Rae Armantrout Myles shows us a ‘place’ a poet might come from, did come from––working class, Catholic, female, queer. People sometimes say, ‘I came from nothing,’ but that’s not quite right. What is a life worth? Inferno isn’t another ‘life of the poet,’ it’s a fugue state where life and poem are one: shameful and glorious. “What is a poem worth? Not much in America.
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