Eileen P Myles

Chelsea Girls

Chelsea Girls

Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems

Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems

Maxfield Parrish: Early & New Poems

Chelsea Girls

Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multimedia Performance

Not Me

Inferno: A Poet's Novel

From its beginningMy English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”to its endYou can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discoveri...

Sorry, Tree

One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literaturehonest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”Dennis CooperEileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. BUST magazine calls her the rock star of mode...

Cool For You

Grainy and stripped, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Eileen Myles is a genius!” Dorothy Allison

Afterglow (a dog memoir)

Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work “set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match” (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull ca...

Cool for You: A Novel

“A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde.”―The New York Times Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eil...

I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems

A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles’ work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing new consider...

Snowflake / different streets

"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."—Dennis Cooper"[Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous. . . . To be able to write with such gentleness and for...

Not Me (Native Agents)

Listen, I have been educated.I have learned about WesternCivilization. Do you knowWhat the message of WesternCivilization is? I am alone.This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 198...