A reading by Eileen Myles
Thursday 15 October 2009 at 8:00
@ the gallery of castillo/corrales, 65 rue Rébeval, 75019 Paris, Belleville
"The thing Im getting to is that a poem is nature. Part of ...
A reading by Eileen Myles
Thursday 15 October 2009 at 8:00 @ the gallery of castillo/corrales, 65 rue Rébeval, 75019 Paris, Belleville
"The thing Im getting to is that a poem is nature. Part of my mind, that whirligig that sits by the window and spins. Continuous. I looked the word whirligig up and indeed, its a turning job. But I mean your whole life becomes a turning job, not just the poem. The poem is a little piece of that. The guy falling in his chair going: I am a tree I am a tree I am a tree
And I took a piece of that." --Eileen Myles (How to Write an Avant-Garde Poem, 1999)
Eileen Myles's collection of essays The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and libretti (Hell) and many many poems (Sorry, Tree, Not Me). She ran St. Marks Poetry Project in the 80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President. Shes a Professor Emeritus of Writing & Literature at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.
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