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An important and beloved radical icon of American letters, Eileen Myles has been described as 'one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature'. They have published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, fiction, plays and libretti, and both they and their poems have recently appeared in the hit US TV series 'Transparent'. They are the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers' grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing and was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List in 2015. Myles lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York. Visit her website at www.eileenmyles.com.Eileen Myles' essential poetry is the hip kid leaning against their locker secretly burning with intensity, the smartest boy in the class who doesn't care he has a scar down his face
- Lena Dunham,
When Myles is described as an "avant-garde" poet, it makes her art sound difficult and intimidating. It isn't.
Guardian
It has taken time for the literary world to catch up with Myles's politics and poetics... [has] a modern, light-footed technique, which delights in skilfully switching perspectives between one line and the next.
Sunday Times
Amazing
- Kim Gordon,
[A] new generation of public feminists, including Beth Ditto, Lena Dunham and Tavi Gevinson, cite her as an inspiration, finding in her writing a ribald and ponderous succession to the New York School' New York Times
New York Times
She and her work are unsettled in the best sense: restless, disturbing, changeable... She is exemplary for more and more young writers precisely because she has gone her own way.
Ben Lerner
One of the richest and most conflicted human hearts you're likely to find
- Dan Chiasson, New York Review of Books
It's not often that a writer embodies the kind of trailblazing, unapologetic realness and talent that American poet Eileen Myles does.
Wonderland
Eileen Myles's poetry is kinetic, ecstatic, muscular, hilarious, sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary, and timeless. For those of you who are encountering it for the first time, I envy your ride.
Maggie Nelson