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Eileen Myles
1949 -
A fixture of New York’s downtown literary scene, Eileen Myles is a celebrated poet known for her humor, inimitable personality and off-the-cuff style. In “American Poem,” she writes of her life choices: “I thought / Well I’ll be a poet. / What could be more / foolish and obscure. / I became a lesbian.”
In addition to her many volumes of poetry, Myles is also the author of the nonfiction book The Importance of Being Iceland and Inferno: A Poet’s Novel, a semi-autobiographical account of her early days in New York. This fall, Ecco will publish her selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice.
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