A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from the 'rock star of modern poetry'
Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, and most recently, I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1975-2014. Their many honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and their poems were featured in seasons two and three of the Emmy-winning show Transparent. They live in Marfa, Texas, and New York City. Visit their website at www.eileenmyles.com.
Despite having written the book 20 years ago, Myles's literary
style feels as contemporary as the essayistic autobiographical
fiction of Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner and Tao Lin, who might be
considered Myles's literary offspring.
*New York Times*
[Myles's] very presence in the world is a form of activism, but the
work, when studied with care, is also political in the sense that
it gives evidence of one of the richest and most conflicted human
hearts you're likely to find
*New York Review of Books*
Unsettled in the best sense: restless, disturbing, changeable...
Myles is exemplary for more and more young writers precisely
because she has gone her own way.
*Paris Review*
One of the richest and most conflicted human hearts you're likely
to find
*New York Review of Books*
Reading Myles is nothing if not a physical experience, the one-two
promise of a heartbeat that goes, I'm alive. I'm alive.
*Electric Literature*
[This book], on all accounts, redefined the queer novel.
*Wonderland*
Chelsea Girls offers poetry, sex, Catholicism, drugs, class and
sexuality. This new reprint of Myles's hard-talking, lyrical
autobiographical novel, about a female writer figuring things out
in the 1960s, is the missing data for anyone who has read only the
male American beat writers.
*New Statesman*
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