For now
Myles, Eileen2020
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In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbours, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. For Myles, time's "optic quality" is what enables writing in the first place--as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologies vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists."--Publisher's description.
For now / Eileen Myles.
Myles, Eileen, author
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]©2020
87 pages ; 19 cm.
"The 2019 Windham-Campbell lecture."-- Title page.
97803002446499780300244649
808.02
English
383941
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 808.02 MYL | Available |