Not Me (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) - Softcover

Eileen Myles; Chris Kraus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936756675 ISBN 13: 9780936756677

Publisher: Semiotexte, 1991

Synopsis

This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. She is one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living today.

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Review:

" Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems." -- "Village Voice"

" "Not Me" is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination." -- "The Kenyon Review"

" Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit -- honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it." -- Dennis Cooper, "Artforum"

& quot; Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems.& quot; -- Village Voice

& quot; Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit -- honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.& quot; -- Dennis Cooper, Artforum

& quot; Not Me is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination.& quot; -- The Kenyon Review

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""Not Me" is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination."--"The Kenyon Review"

"Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, she has one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."--Dennis Cooper, "Artforum"

"Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems."--"Village Voice"

About the Author:

Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Semiotexte
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0936756675
• ISBN 13: 9780936756677
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204