Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry - Softcover

Myles, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1964499550 ISBN 13: 9781964499550

Verlag: Fonograf Editions, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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 Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, the central character of the book is a twenty-something that is already filled with memories.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 embark on a life fully invested in art. Bliss happens, as does uncertainty. Everything is here and now.

The Irony of the Leash, A Fresh Young Voice from the Plains, and Sappho's Boat, the other collections contained in the volume, comprise the first three books that Myles published, when their promise as one of the most important writers of their generation was just coming into view. Immensely readable, raw, and slightly unhinged, the poetry that comprises these three texts is post young. Slight creaky but fully functional, all of these poems are beautiful and funky.

Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry contains a critical foreword by poet and scholar Rosa Campbell, along with a preface by Eileen Myles contextualizing the book within our contemporary moment.

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Eileen Myles (them/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers around town (globally). They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fonograf Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1964499550
• ISBN 13: 9781964499550
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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