Evolution Eileen Myles

Evolution

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Book Title
Evolution
Author
Eileen Myles
ISBN
9780802128508
The first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake/different streets--and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice--here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts--like nobody else--the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem: Something unearthly about today so I buy a Diet Coke & a newspaper a version of "me" something about me on the earth & its sneakers & feeling like the earth's furniture but that can't be true or like the coke & the Times it's true for a little while.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Eileen MylesPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 09/11/2018ISBN: 9780802128508Pages: 176Weight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/20/2018Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 61Shelf Awareness 09/18/2018
The first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake/different streets--and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice--here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts--like nobody else--the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem:

Something
unearthly
about
today
so I buy
a Diet Coke &
a newspaper
a version of "me"
something
about me on the
earth & its sneakers
& feeling like
the earth's furniture
but that can't be
true or like
the coke & the Times
it's true for a little
while.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 09/11/2018
ISBN: 9780802128508
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/20/2018
Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 61
Shelf Awareness 09/18/2018
The first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake/different streets--and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice--here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts--like nobody else--the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem:

Something
unearthly
about
today
so I buy
a Diet Coke &
a newspaper
a version of "me"
something
about me on the
earth & its sneakers
& feeling like
the earth's furniture
but that can't be
true or like
the coke & the Times
it's true for a little
while.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 09/11/2018
ISBN: 9780802128508
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/20/2018
Library Journal 09/01/2018 pg. 61
Shelf Awareness 09/18/2018