For Now Eileen Myles

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Series:: Why I Write
Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 27 Oct 2020
ISBN:: 9780300244649
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 96 pages: 178 x 121mm
Sales territories:: World

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In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work

Blending humor and meditation, this wide-ranging essay by the award-winning poet and writer Eileen Myles is a candid record of the multivalent forces that shaped them as a writer. It is also a thoughtful investigation into the way that writing is inescapably enmeshed with time. Myles recounts how potential eviction from their apartment; relationships with friends, lovers, and neighbors; and the textures and identities of various cities, including New York and Marfa, Texas, all present a sense of writing as presence within time. “Once I tasted time I never wanted anything else. . . . The only way I can prove it is that I started writing. Writing is my alibi,” they note. The author concludes that writing is a form of loving that makes living “more beautiful” because “I have time for it, I am in it.”

Eileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.