I must be living twice New and selected poems, 1975-2014

Eileen Myles

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Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2015]
Language
English
Main Author
Eileen Myles (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xii, 356 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062389084
  • New Poems
  • What Tree Am I Waiting
  • Summer
  • Prophesy
  • London Exchange
  • My Devil
  • Memory
  • That Rat's Death
  • The Irony of the Leash (1978)
  • Homebody
  • An Attitude About Poetry
  • Evening
  • Subscription
  • The Irony of the Leash
  • A Fresh Young Voice from the Plains (1981)
  • The Honey Bear
  • Along the Strand
  • Greece
  • Skuppy the Sailor Dog
  • Medium poem
  • Welsh Poetry
  • My Cheap Lifestyle
  • On the Death of Robert Lowell
  • Texas
  • Sappho's Boat (1982) Joan
  • "Romantic Pain"
  • La Vita Nuova
  • Exploding the Spring Mystique
  • My Rampant Muse, for Her
  • Whax 'n Wayne
  • Yellow Tulips
  • New York Tulips
  • Lorna & Vicki
  • Not Me (1991) A Poem
  • Edward the Confessor
  • Holes
  • April Noon
  • The Sadness of Leaving
  • Hot Night
  • And Then The Weather Arrives
  • November
  • New England Wind
  • Mad Pepper
  • The Sad Part Is
  • Triangles of Power
  • Peanut Butter
  • The Real Drive
  • Autumn in New York
  • Mal Maison
  • An American Poem
  • Maxfield Parrish (1995)
  • Maxfield Parrish
  • Bleeding Hearts
  • Sleepless
  • "I always put my pussy ..."
  • SHHH
  • The Mirror Is My Mother
  • En Garde
  • PV
  • Looking Out, a Sailor
  • A Debate With A Glove
  • Late March
  • You
  • "No Poems"
  • Life
  • The Poet
  • School of Fish (1997)
  • School of Fish
  • Road Warrior
  • Last Supper
  • Merk
  • Porn Poems
  • Just God
  • Mr. Twenty
  • Aurora
  • Woo
  • Rotting Symbols
  • Sullivan's Brain
  • My War Is Love
  • Waterfall
  • Tonight
  • Story
  • No No
  • Skies (2001)
  • "Jonathans..."
  • "The whole mess..."
  • My Wife Is Shopping
  • "Twenty years ago..."
  • Writing
  • "My mind's..."
  • The Center
  • Milk
  • And
  • Snakes
  • Infinity Mini
  • Mt. St. Helens
  • "I don't know..."
  • My Hat
  • Weather
  • Sympathy
  • Bone
  • The Guest
  • On My Way (2001)
  • Harmonica
  • Scribner's
  • Sorry, Tree (2007)
  • No Rewriting
  • For Jordana
  • Each Defeat
  • Unnamed New York
  • April 5
  • That Country
  • I'm moved
  • San Diego Poem
  • Cigarette girl
  • To Hell
  • Snowflake / Different Streets (2012)
  • Transitions
  • Snowflake
  • D.H.
  • Choke
  • Caesarean Toothbrush
  • "The cat is in ..."
  • Your Name
  • Mitten
  • Hi
  • The Weather
  • Smile
  • The Perfect Faceless Fish
  • My Box
  • Epilogue
  • Anonymous
  • Twice (essay)
  • Acknowledgments
Review by New York Times Review

THE GIFT OF FAILURE: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, by Jessica Lahey. (Harper, $15.99.) Overinvolved, hypercompetitive parenting has stunted the competence and resilience of an entire generation of children, Lahey argues. As an educator and a mother, she is well situated to assess the damage: In her view, an intense fear of failure hampers the development of many young people. I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2014, by Eileen Myles. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $16.99.) Myles's poems in this collection thrum with energy, whether focused on attraction, appetites - for food or otherwise - or bygone selves. In her writing, "the birth of the cool often manifests itself with a kind of willful amateurism," our reviewer, Jeff Gordinier, wrote. THE INVENTION OF NATURE: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf. (Vintage, $17.) As a pre-eminent scientist who influenced Darwin and many others, Humboldt, a German naturalist, geographer and explorer, proposed that Earth is a single organism. Modern thought is suffused with his ideas, but the man himself has largely receded from view. Wulf revisits his stunning discoveries in her account, one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2015. COUP DE FOUDRE: A Novella and Stories, by Ken Kalfus. (Bloomsbury, $17.) This collection's namesake novella centers on the fictional president of an international financial organization accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. The masterly story, which closely resembles the real-life case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, "enters the mind of a megalomaniac who conflates his own ruin with that of the European economy," Andrew Sean Greer said here. FARTHEST FIELD: An Indian Story of the Second World War, by Raghu Karnad. (Norton, $16.95.) India's contributions to World War II - more than two million men and women served - have been all but scrubbed from prevailing accounts, even on the subcontinent. After unearthing his family's history, Karnad delves into the country's role in the conflict and the peculiarities of fighting in service of the British Empire even as India struggled for independence from it. UNDER THE UDALA TREES, by Chinelo Okparanta. (Mariner, $14.95.) Amid the chaos of the Biafran war, Ijeoma, a child in Nigeria, is sent away to work as a servant in another village. She soon falls in love - with another girl. After the pair are discovered, Ijeoma returns home and learns to reconcile her desires with a society intent on suppressing them. THE TWO-STATE DELUSION: Israel and Palestine - A Tale of Two Narratives, by Padraig O'Malley. (Penguin, $18.) O'Malley, who also researched seemingly intractable disputes in Ireland and South Africa, levels evenhanded criticism at both Palestinians and Israelis, and grimly assesses the feasibility - political and economic - of the two-state proposal, favored by leaders across the globe.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Spanning 10 books and four decades, this selected volume solidifies Myles's reputation as both an underground star and a major force in contemporary poetry. Myles (Snowflake/Different Streets) often traffics in intimate and autobiographical details, providing an opportunity for the personal to spread across questions of poetics, class, and urbanity, among others. Her early poems often lingered in the consciousness for decades, finding small but devoted audiences yet dismissed by the mainstream, not in small part because of their direct engagement with her life as a queer, working-class woman. Myles's poetic performance is complex, though it can appear deceptively simple. This is especially true of her many poems consisting of short lines that rush forward with beautifully casual, chatty language, and characteristic humor, insight, and surprise: "It is a miracle/ that I should speak/ to delight you./ I feel like a flag/ more or less/ but music is my breeze/ I have many friends/ rest assured." The pleasures of Myles's poetry multiply with each successive reading. This volume includes many out-of-print poems as well as new work and a brief 2014 essay by Myles on her poetics. Readers will be thrilled not only that this old work is available again, but that the new work is as impressive as ever. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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