
A "Working Life"
Myles, Eileen100 USD
Date
2023
Category
Poetry
Description
a "Working Life" shows Eileen Myles working at the height of their poeticism during the pandemic lockdown. Myles funnels immense anxieties about the future world into the act of human connection. They chronicle the beauty and absurdity of love, sex, nature, pizza, and animals.
Signed at their inaugural reading of a "Working Life" in the East Village.
Excerpt
pizza
in the park
w your
gleaming
intelligence
I think
of her
I cannot
resist
so what
is yur
smart
ness &
beauty
doing
for fun?
what is
the non
oppressive
condition
of love &
sex am I
even