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  • Chelsea Girls

    A Novel

    by Eileen Myles ...
    "[Offering] poetry, sex, Catholicism, drugs, class, and sexuality . . . Myles's hard-talking, lyrical autobiographical novel" is available for a new generation (Deborah Levy, The New Statesman ).In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Evolution

    by Eileen Myles ...
    The new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Chelsea Girls reads like "an arrival, a voice always becoming, unpinnable and queer" (Natalie Diaz, New York Times Book Review).The first all-new collection of poems from Eileen Myles since 2011's Snowflake/different streets, Evolution follows the author's critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as a volume of selected poems ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inferno

    A Poet's Novel

    by Eileen Myles ...
    From its beginning-My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”-to its end-You 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, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Afterglow

    (a dog memoir)

    by Eileen Myles ...
    "A ravishingly strange and gorgeous book about a dog that's really about life and everything there is…astonishing." — Helen Macdonald, New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for HawkIn 1990, poet Eileen Myles chose Rosie from a litter of pit bulls on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • a "Working Life"

    by Eileen Myles ...
    From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving presentThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in relationship ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Bird Watching and their First Three Books of Poetry

    by Eileen Myles ...
    Any future film director planning to make a movie of Myles’s iconic novel Chelsea Girls (it’s always just about to happen) would be wise to read Bird Watching first. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, the central character of the book is a twenty-something that is already filled with memories. Living in New York City, resplendent, full of both grandeur and awkwardness, they are about to ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • For Now

    by Eileen Myles ...
    Series series Why I Write
    In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work**"A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."—**Kirkus Reviews“[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.”—NPR"This is signature Myles: the unconventional syntax, the jazzy rhythms, the total... ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Cool for You

    A Novel

    by Eileen Myles ...
    Grainy and stripped down, this gritty novel traces the downbeat progress of a tough, queer girl growing up in working-class Boston by "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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Pathetic Literature

    by Eileen Myles ...
    An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word “pathetic”“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • I Love Dick

    by Chris Kraus ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
    A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Yours Presently

    The Selected Letters of John Wieners

    by Eileen Myles ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poète maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers are correcting this elision, placing Wieners back alongside his better-known peers, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Amiri Baraka. Wieners was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Love in the New Millennium

    by Can Can Xue, Eileen Myles ...
    Translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China todayIn this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook