| Author: | Eileen Myles | ISBN: | 9781593766870 |
| Publisher: | Soft Skull Press | Publication: | April 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Eileen Myles |
| ISBN: | 9781593766870 |
| Publisher: | Soft Skull Press |
| Publication: | April 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Soft Skull Press |
| Language: | English |
“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 Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. Free-ranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women, gender, class, bodies, escape, and what it means to be “inside.” Never more relevant, and now with an introduction by Chris Kraus.
“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 Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. Free-ranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women, gender, class, bodies, escape, and what it means to be “inside.” Never more relevant, and now with an introduction by Chris Kraus.
