Not Me

By: Eileen Myles

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Paperback | 15 February 2021

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204 Pages

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17.7 x 11.8 x 1.2

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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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"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

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Not Me
An American Poem	p. 13
Edward the Confessor	p. 18
Everything's House	p. 21
Holes	p. 32
A Poet of Compassion	p. 34
The Face	p. 38
The New Cassette	p. 40
April Noon	p. 42
The Sadness of Leaving	p. 43
At Last	p. 46
Silent Partner	p. 50
Hot Night	p. 51
Twentieth Century Dinosaur	p. 58
A Blue Jay	p. 63
Peanut Butter	p. 69
Basic August	p. 73
Promotional Material	p. 96
Vista	p. 104
A Poem	p. 107
The Real Drive
Public Television	p. 113
My Childhood	p. 117
The Real Drive	p. 123
Mal Maison	p. 127
Nice Wishes	p. 141
Dad's Bag	p. 145
November	p. 148
Cathleen	p. 150
Him and Others	p. 151
And Then the Weather Arrives	p. 152
Spinnin Wheel	p. 154
December 9th	p. 155
Early Morning Letter	p. 156
New England Wind	p. 157
Our Love	p. 158
Ponder	p. 160
Mad Pepper	p. 164
Looking Back	p. 168
Keats & I	p. 171
The Sad Part Is	p. 186
The Sunset Chorus	p. 187
Triangles of Power	p. 190
The Bicycle	p. 192
Autumn in New York	p. 193
A Poem in Two Homes	p. 195
How I Wrote Certain of My Poems	p. 201
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