Eileen Myles: 7 books

Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction to work on Afterglow, the writer’s first foray into memoir Myles publishes widely in journals and magazines—including Harper’s, the Nation, the New York Times, and Literary Hub—and appears for readings and lectures around the world Poems...

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work...

A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls. Eileen Myles’ work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing...

Poems from Evolution have been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, T: the New York Times Style Magazine, Paris Review, BOMB, the Nation, and elsewhere Afterglow (a dog memoir) was hailed as “unflinching but also irrepressibly humorous” by Sigrid Nunez in the New York Times Book Review,...

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...

“A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde.”—*The New York Times* Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer...

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a...