Not Me

by Eileen Myles

Overview

This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. She is one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780936756677
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	06/01/1991
Series:	Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Pages:	204
Sales rank:	696,543
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.

Table of Contents

	Not Me
	An American Poem	13
	Edward the Confessor	18
	Everything's House	21
	Holes	32
	A Poet of Compassion	34
	The Face	38
	The New Cassette	40
	April Noon	42
	The Sadness of Leaving	43
	At Last	46
	Silent Partner	50
	Hot Night	51
	Twentieth Century Dinosaur	58
	A Blue Jay	63
	Peanut Butter	69
	Basic August	73
	Promotional Material	96
	Vista	104
	A Poem	107
	The Real Drive
	Public Television	113
	My Childhood	117
	The Real Drive	123
	Mal Maison	127
	Nice Wishes	141
	Dad's Bag	145
	November	148
	Cathleen	150
	Him and Others	151
	And Then the Weather Arrives	152
	Spinnin Wheel	154
	December 9th	155
	Early Morning Letter	156
	New England Wind	157
	Our Love	158
	Ponder	160
	Mad Pepper	164
	Looking Back	168
	Keats & I	171
	The Sad Part Is	186
	The Sunset Chorus	187
	Triangles of Power	190
	The Bicycle	192
	Autumn in New York	193
	A Poem in Two Homes	195
	How I Wrote Certain of My Poems	201

What People are Saying About This

Dennis Cooper

Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.

Village Voice

Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems.

Endorsement

Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems.

—Village Voice

From the Publisher

Not Me is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination.

—The Kenyon Review

Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.

—Dennis Cooper, Artforum

Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems.

—Village Voice

The Kenyon Review

Not Me is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination.