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    Evolution
    Evolution
    Evolution
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    Evolution

    Written by Eileen Myles

    Narrated by Eileen Myles

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    The first all-new collection of poems since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets―and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice―here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts―like nobody else―the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem:

    Something
    unearthly
    about
    today
    so I buy
    a Diet Coke &
    a newspaper
    a version of “me”
    something
    about me on the
    earth & its sneakers
    & feeling like
    the earth’s furniture
    but that can’t be
    true or like
    the coke & the Times
    it’s true for a little
    while.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 17, 2019
    ISBN9781721342211
    Author

    Eileen Myles

    One of the most important and beloved radical icons of American letters, Eileen Myles has been described as 'one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature'. They have published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, fiction, plays and libretti, and recently appeared in the hit US TV series Transparent. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers' grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing and was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List in 2015. Myles lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York. Visit her website at www.eileenmyles.com.

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    • 5/5
      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.