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From the prolific poet, activist and writer Eileen Myles, a "Working Life" unerringly captures the measure of life. Exploring permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder, these poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog during the pandemic lockdowns.
Their lines unabashedly sing the happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings about the not-so-future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring for one another and our world.
With intelligence, heart and singular vision, a "Working Life" shows Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair and Electric Literature
“Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny, Myles’s poems chop lines into uncanny units and place our lexicons under an X-ray, turning the familiar into the unfamiliar. Myles evokes the absurd grace of mundane life—coffee, dog, toilet, ex-lover, refrigerator, T-shirt, cat, books, therapy, toaster—but among these quotidian objects and companions, there’s always a spark of surprise, as the sharp philosophical lines stop us in our tracks . . . An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy; I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pages.”—Kit Fan, The Guardian
“These poems probe consciousness from within the flow of experience. They move with the call and response between perception and thought. Perhaps yielding to their flow is what creates the feeling of sumptuousness . . . These are splendid poems.”—Camille Roy, Brooklyn Rail
“a ‘Working Life’ takes you where Myles feels like, for however long they feel like it, and in whichever direction. This is harder than it looks. The ease of Myles’s lines—the way words break in two to calibrate rhythm and speed, or how the number of words per line expand and single out to play around with tension—belie great skill. But the difference between poets isn’t just style; it’s personality, or one’s outlook on life. Myles’s is one of the most distinctive, and insightful.”—Vulture
“The poetry collection a “Working Life” finds Myles seeking revelation among the bouncing rhythms of people’s lives.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Myles’s work likely needs no introduction, but their latest collection—which celebrates the small and fleeting joys that make life worthwhile while also acknowledging the deleterious effect of climate change and capitalism—is the perfect thing to read after you finally finish Chelsea Girls.”—Vogue
“Impressive . . . With just a few words per line, their poems move down the page quickly, the language dashed off and immediate, as though keeping pace with the poet’s mind. Some feel like shorthand entries in a diary . . . [Reveals] the joys of a life built out of thinking, dreaming, and making.”—Publishers Weekly
