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The Autobiography of Jenny X
Lisa Dierbeck
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Collected Fictions
Gordon Lish
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Eileen Myles
"I was completely stupefied by Inferno in the best of ways. In fact, I think I must feel kind of like Dante felt after seeing the face of God. My descriptive capacity just fails, gives way completely. But I can tell you that Eileen Myles made me understand something I didn’t before. And really, what more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it." — Alison Bechdel
WINNER OF THE 2010 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR BEST LESBIAN FICTION
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Praise for Eileen Myles’ Inferno
“What is a poem worth? Not much in America. What is a life worth? Inferno isn’t another ‘life of the poet,’ it’s a fugue state where life and poem are one: shameful and glorious. People sometimes say, ‘I came from nothing,’ but that’s not quite right. Myles shows us a ‘place’ a poet might come from, did come from––working class, Catholic, female, queer. This narrative journey somehow takes place in a moment, every moment, the impossible present moment of poetry.” – Rae Armantrout
“Zingingly funny and melancholy, Inferno follows a young girl from Boston in her descent into the maelstrom of New York Bohemia, circa 1968. Myles beautifully chronicles a lost Eden: ‘The place I found was carved out from sadness and sex and to write a poem there you merely needed to gather.’ ” — John Ashbery
“Eileen Myles debates her own self identity in a gruffly beautiful, sure voice of reason. Is she a ‘hunk’? A ‘dyke’? A ‘female’? I’ll tell you what she is––damn smart! Inferno burns with humor, lust and a healthy dose of neurotic happiness.” — John Waters
From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”—poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.Publication November 30th 2010 • 256 pages.
Cover with flames: paperback ISBN 978-1-935928-03-4 • ebook ISBN 978-1-935928-04-1
Cover with mouth: paperback ISBN 978-1-935928-06-5 • ebook ISBN 978-1-935928-07-2
May 3rd
New York: 433 PAS - 6.00pm to 8.00pm (map)
Book launch for Camille Roy, reading with Camille Roy and Paul Foster Johnson
May 7th
Missoula, MT: Missoula Art Museum - 1.00pm to 2.30pm (map)
About.com Poetry, November 29th 2011
Emily Books blog, November 2nd 2011
The G Scene, September 9th 2011
Women's Review of Books, September 1st 2011
For Books' Sake, August 22nd 2011
Lesbians of North London, August 1st 2011
The Brooklyn Rail, July 13th 2011
Lambda Literary, June 7th 2011
Poets & Writers, May 27th 2011
Next Magazine, March 11th 2011
Largehearted Boy, March 9th 2011
Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews, March 4th 2011
Book Punch, February 18th 2011
The Awl, February 14th 2011
The Believer, February 2011
The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2010
Art in America, November 29th 2010
Karen the Small Press Librarian, November 30th 2010
Orpheus Sleeps, November 28th 2010
bookforum.com, November 24th 2010
Lambda Literary, November 23rd 2010
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Bomb Blog, November 16th 2010
Books on the Radio, November 16th 2010
After Ellen, November 10th 2010
We Who Are About to Die, November 6th 2010
the open end, November 4th 2010
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Autostraddle, October 7th 2010
Poetry Off the Shelf, October 6th 2010
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Killing the Buddha, August 17th 2010
Publisher's Weekly, August 9th 2010
Lambda Literary, August 5th 2010
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DC's, August 2nd 2010