FOR NOW

In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recou nts their early years as an awakening writer/ existential struggles with landlords/ storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lov ers/ and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. For Myles, tim e's optic quality is what enables writing in the first place-as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision t hat enab...[Read more]