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It doesn't have a single linear narrative, but it's lively, conversational, and highly intelligent. It's a bait and switch."Īfterglow is a weird book, wild and unruly in its style. "My hope is that," they trail off, "I don't know. A book about a dog sounds like something people buy at airports. This new book, by virtue of its canine subject and maybe even that image on the book jacket spine, is likely to open their writing up to a wider audience. Myles has had a prolific career and achieved a zealous following of queer liberal arts college feminists. At the same time, Myles continues to frequent downtown New York art galleries, reading their work, supporting their peers, and generally cruising the scene. In recent years, millions have seen their poems (and a character modeled after them) on their ex Jill Soloway's show Transparent. Still, articles about them tend to fall into platitudes, anointing the poet cooler than you, an avatar of supreme coolness, and the epitome of cool. They've authored 20 books, launched a presidential campaign, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship. It's in the late pitbull's voice that they christen the 90s "such a lesbian moment for dogs."įor decades, Myles has been a mainstay of New York's poetry scene.

The canine, as well as the 15 years Myles shared with their pet, is the subject (and sometimes narrator) of their newest book, "a dog memoir," out today. There are also stacks of their new book, Afterglow, the cover a black-and-white photograph of the writer posed on a stool, the spotted face of a pitbull next to their feet. Socks and underwear spill out of a suitcase and onto the floor around us, betraying the fact that Myles got back last night from Marfa, Texas where the writer splits their time. Later, they tell me, they've lived here for 40 years. It's a one-room studio apartment in New York's downtown Lower East Side. They sit in their living room with their legs crossed, ankle to knee. And I’ve been people other than your father.Eileen Myles is handsome like a Kennedy and energetically grounded. Which I think you understand now is an intuition. And we will continue now with our weaving. And dogs become human that way and this transmigration of souls is a very Irish thing, remarked upon persistently in literature. Your grandmother entered into Peggy because that’s what people do all the time.

I need to finish this tapestry, be done with your book and resume my own travelling. Because you want to cover some land in the time you’ve got left.

You need to go on and especially now you need to go fast. To be a deep and constant well of sadness is a very real thing but it does not mean that you should go either right or left.