Evolution
About this book
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, I Must Be Living Twice. In these new poems, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that radiates insight, purpose, and risk while channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones.
This long-awaited new collection “lopes forward in the strutting style of the witnessing and sincere, but gorgeously nonaustere, poet in New York…The gift of Evolution is its bold depiction of the textually-rendered ‘I’-Eileen” ( Kenyon Review ).
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also by Eileen Myles
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- [I am Ann Lee …]
- Evolution
- Noggin
- Harp
- Car Notebook
- Wet Paris
- Walter Myles
- Each Day I Get Up
- We Are Stardust
- G’s Body
- BP
- The City
- 15 minutes
- Our Happiness
- A Gift for You
- The Baby
- St. Joseph Father of Whales
- Dream
- Dream 2
- For you
- After the Season
- Sept 18
- Washington
- To My Flowers
- El Diablito
- Angel
- Sharing Fall
- Paradise
- Notell
- Beautiful Cows
- The City of New York
- Paint Me a Penis
- Large Large White Flowers
- Dissolution
- August 23
- Photograph of everything
- Sylvia
- Acceptance Speech
- Western Poem
- The Earth
- Jiggly
- May 8
- Epic for you
- May 26
- You
- You
- Circus
- So
- Today
- Memorial Day
- Today Egyptian
- After Thought
- Lark
- A
- Aloha
- Television
- Failed Appointment
- Notebook, 1981
- Kitchen/Holidays
- In the Picture
- End War
- My Poems
- While you Live Here
- Poem at Dusk
- Dear Adam
- A Little Bit
- The West
- The Vow
- Creep
- Transmission
- A Hundred per cent
- Sweet Heart
- Acknowledgments
- Back Cover
