The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. … - Eileen Myles
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. …
- Eileen Myles
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing. - Eileen Myles
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how … - Eileen Myles
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how …
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthr… - Eileen Myles
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthr…
People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience. - Eileen Myles
People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.
I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it s… - Eileen Myles
I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it s…
People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their frien… - Eileen Myles
People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their frien…
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time. - Eileen Myles
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. - Eileen Myles
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.
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