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I Must Be Living Twice

New and Selected Poems

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"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." —New York Times

A collection of new and selected past work from one of America’s most celebrated poets

Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which readers can peer into existent places, like the East Village of Myles's iconic Chelsea Girls. But they are also lifted into dreams, through writing that has the vividness and energy of fantasy.

I Must Be Living Twice brings selections from the poet’s previous work together with a set of bold new poems, through which Myles continues to refine their sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, Myles's stomping grounds and the home of their most well-known work, they provide a wide-open lens into radical life.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from September 21, 2015
      Spanning 10 books and four decades, this selected volume solidifies Myles’s reputation as both an underground star and a major force in contemporary poetry. Myles (Snowflake/Different Streets) often traffics in intimate and autobiographical details, providing an opportunity for the personal to spread across questions of poetics, class, and urbanity, among others. Her early poems often lingered in the consciousness for decades, finding small but devoted audiences yet dismissed by the mainstream, not in small part because of their direct engagement with her life as a queer, working-class woman. Myles’s poetic performance is complex, though it can appear deceptively simple. This is especially true of her many poems consisting of short lines that rush forward with beautifully casual, chatty language, and characteristic humor, insight, and surprise: “It is a miracle/ that I should speak/ to delight you./ I feel like a flag/ more or less/ but music is my breeze/ I have many friends/ rest assured.” The pleasures of Myles’s poetry multiply with each successive reading. This volume includes many out-of-print poems as well as new work and a brief 2014 essay by Myles on her poetics. Readers will be thrilled not only that this old work is available again, but that the new work is as impressive as ever.

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