For Now by Eileen Myles

£12.99

Publisher: Yale University Press

Year: 2020

Format: Hardcover

Edition: First

Condition: New

In this third Why I Write volume, poet and writer Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work.

In this meditation, Eileen Myles offers a glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbours, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time.
 
For Myles, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologised vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process.

For Now by Eileen Myles} For Now by Eileen Myles}
For Now by Eileen Myles} For Now by Eileen Myles}