Inferno: A Poet's Novel
by:
Eileen Myles (author)
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 female writer,...
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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 female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781935928034 (1935928031)
Publish date: November 1st 2010
Publisher: OR Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Language,
Feminism,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
New York,
Womens,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian
i will try to come back to this one day but at the moment i just can't get into it. been trying for months yet i'm only at the halfway mark. it's giving me anxiety.
I had to read this for class, and of all the assigned novels it was the one I most expected to like. But it's the one I like the least.It's not fiction, for starters, and that bugs me in a class for writing fiction. The author is a poet and it's the story of her poetic life. I am not that literary a...
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