作品情報

光と情熱、誠実さを求める詩と散文を収める。

Lambda Literary Award受賞作。都市の感覚、記憶、身体感覚が鋭く交差する詩篇と散文を収める。

書籍情報

出版社

Black Sparrow Press

発売日

1997-03-01

ページ数

193ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.33 x 2.39 x 23.77 cm

ISBN-13

9781574230321

ISBN-10

1574230328

価格

37845 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American

Here are images seized from urban life's experimental flow. Illuminating these densely and intensely alive new poems is an eloquent and revealing prose essay, "The Lesbian Poet", wherein Myles addresses the sources of her art, paying homage to her favorite living poets and early influences, and spelling out her own vitalist / proprioceptive aesthetic: "I think we all write out poems with our metabolism, our sexuality, for me a poem has always been an imagined body of a sort, getting that down in time, it moves this way and that, it is full of its own sense of possibility". With agility, grace and speed, Eileen Myles explores poetic possibilities, stretching linguistic boundaries while hungrily searching for the taste of life's quick core. "I have this compulsion to live no matter what..."

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