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g00finn's review against another edition
5.0
they are absolutely genius. i want to think like them. write like them.
jesshooves's review against another edition
“My poems are so much / like the city they / couldn’t publish them / on the train.”
nearfutures's review against another edition
This is my first Myles book and it's very different from a lot of poetry that I've been reading. It read as very casual and stream-of-conscience in a way that I have an intuitive resistance to, but the sort of peripatetic quality of the poems is I think in fact very intentional and quite effective for a good chunk of the book. I wish there had been a little more variance in form (a lot of very short lines, enjambment as nearly the only syntax) but that's a personal quibble and not a flaw with the book. A lot to think about!
wildgurl's review against another edition
5.0
Evolution
by Eileen Myles
2018
Grove Press
5 / 5
I am absolutely blown away by this collection of poems, essays and speeches. Poems about belonging, desire, self-consciousness, politics, The Shakers (I´ve been fascinated by the shakers for years, read all i can find) and the process of being human-capable and culpable-how we evolve as individuals.
Myles is absorbing and expressive and one of the best gay poets I´ve read. I find her fascinating with an intelligence and depth that is honest and refreshing to read.
I highly recommend this book by one of New Yorkś most essential writers.
p. 7-8:
¨....Anyone here could probably tell me how many countries have legally elected socialist presidents, and moderate presidents and communist presidents and much revered and inspiring presidents and our government in response utterly disregarding their electoral process funded a right-wing autocrat, a human-rights violator who would make a deal. I don´t know if we are the most corrupt nation on earth. Does it need to start there? It´s just that having taken the land from one people and then dragged another people from their continent to work on it for free and then deciding that you want California and Texas and Montana and Idaho and New Mexico and Arizona so you take that from another people I mean when I think that Los Angeles was a Mexican City in 1848. We just thought we would take it. And our soldiers went into veracruz raping people. Just cause they could. And now were going to build a wall......¨
Essential.
by Eileen Myles
2018
Grove Press
5 / 5
I am absolutely blown away by this collection of poems, essays and speeches. Poems about belonging, desire, self-consciousness, politics, The Shakers (I´ve been fascinated by the shakers for years, read all i can find) and the process of being human-capable and culpable-how we evolve as individuals.
Myles is absorbing and expressive and one of the best gay poets I´ve read. I find her fascinating with an intelligence and depth that is honest and refreshing to read.
I highly recommend this book by one of New Yorkś most essential writers.
p. 7-8:
¨....Anyone here could probably tell me how many countries have legally elected socialist presidents, and moderate presidents and communist presidents and much revered and inspiring presidents and our government in response utterly disregarding their electoral process funded a right-wing autocrat, a human-rights violator who would make a deal. I don´t know if we are the most corrupt nation on earth. Does it need to start there? It´s just that having taken the land from one people and then dragged another people from their continent to work on it for free and then deciding that you want California and Texas and Montana and Idaho and New Mexico and Arizona so you take that from another people I mean when I think that Los Angeles was a Mexican City in 1848. We just thought we would take it. And our soldiers went into veracruz raping people. Just cause they could. And now were going to build a wall......¨
Essential.
paradoxicalcreature's review against another edition
3.0
I love Eileen but also not my favourite but I love reading their poems they must have such an interesting life
katiemonty's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
i didnt wholeheartedly enjoy any of these poems and that’s okay!
there’s about turkey’s and the authors dog. while the book was not my thing here’s some quotes i liked:
“And now I’m picking wrong words so I’ve gone on too long.”
“well eventually I would just climb into the library and be a book I’d be preserved”
there’s about turkey’s and the authors dog. while the book was not my thing here’s some quotes i liked:
“And now I’m picking wrong words so I’ve gone on too long.”
“well eventually I would just climb into the library and be a book I’d be preserved”
bookofstars's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
1.0
worst poetry I've ever read and i used to be my friends beta reader. praying eileen learns how to write poetry, especially not just 1 word a line poetry... my least favourite was "Aloha: good title" yes that is the entire bloody poem,,, thats not a poem thats 3 words... eileen if you ever see this please either learn good poetry or never write again thanks hugs and kisses xoxo