A Conversation with Eileen Myles
"Some things I know in advance I won’t share, maybe will never share. But other things—like, my mother died in 2017, and it really changes what I can write. It’s not that my mother read my work (that I know of). Pretty early on, it was clear she was not reading it. But the fact that she was in the world meant that there were things I wouldn’t say. And then it changes."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jessica E. Johnson on "Of Daylight Saving Time, MyFitnessPal, and Indoor/Outdoor Cats"
"I want to weave in my long, stubborn opposition to hierarchy, noting how eyes trained on hierarchy and classification will miss what is rich, intricate, and inherently valuable in favor of an arbitrary metric. Rich, intricate, valuable: the adjectives call up the sword fern, mahonia, and yellow stream violet that grow under the tall, broad cedar I love and try to listen to, the whole system around her unsuited to commodification." |
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