Evolution

New Statesman's best books of the year, 2018

Eileen Myles

• Verlag: Grove Press UK
• Jahr: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781611859324
• Thema: Littérature
• Thema: Poésie américaine

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019 New Statesman's best books of the year, 2018 This new book of poems and essays by Eileen Myles finds our game-changing writer keying lines in the euphoric style that the New York Times has called 'one of the essential voices in American poetry.'Following the critically claimed Afterglow (a dog memoir) and I Must Be Living Twice, their career-spanning selected poems, Evolution is Myles' first all-new poetry collection since 2011's Snowflake/different streets. These new poems upend genre in a vernacular that enacts, like nothing else, the way we speak (inside and out today). From walking around Marfa and New York City with an orange pit bull to Eileen's transcendent acceptance speech as President, Evolution lifts a can of Diet Coke as an End-of-the-World toast to embodiment, irreverence and risk.

A

A person

out side

butting

up inside

at home

out side

one. Ringing

the streets

the elaborate

lighting

and the peculiar

blocks

of the neighbors

their houses

and lamps.

Pick a letter

any letter

it seems

it is broken

hearted

dripping

angel giving

it all

a squeeze

what’s

got a

lot

tomorrow

a curt

ain

a home

less

ness

hold it all

French P

porpoise

Orange

the letters re-

arrange

them

selves

it’s impossible

to make

a plan

any

body

auto body

all on

your

own make

a P

it was in

credible

one dog

my incredible

loneliness

I want

to roll

my genitals

in towards

a large

empty field

in which

I can say

everyone

& feel

love. The dog sprayed

my dog not

hit her

quite I

think she

squatted

forced

out her

own rain

terrific

performance

I got

a lot. By

the time

I send

you: my

friends

I don’t

know any

one having

sex with strangers

all of

you. Tell

me. I’m

weird

in my

moment

he ex

plained

oh these

are just

two mo

ments

important

I was

in high

school

too. Which

mouth

to kiss.

In

celebration

she is

going on a diet

then

she may

get old

I understand

you I

understand

everyone

Shannon the singers

were down

by the

lake & you pulled

the sword

from the water

it

was offered

by a

hand. In the palm

of the hand

was the letter

A

down the throat

of the singer

I wonder

what will

happen

tomorrow

every

day I get

on a plane. I miss

every

one

meet

you

in let

tered

cities

this morning

I stood

crying

I think it wa...