![]() It is simply not that interesting to listen to someone talk about their dog, even if that someone is Eileen Myles. Much of Myles’ work is intentionally messy, but I have often found sharpness and humor in her large blocks of run-on-sentence text. Afterglow’s been blurbed prestigiously, but I found it to be quite a mess of a book. Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Afterglow (a dog memoir), Inferno (a poet’s novel), Chelsea Girls, and Cool For You. The subject of Afterglow is a dog named Rosie, now deceased, with whom Myles shared her itinerant life, and describes using odd, associative framing devices, including a dream puppet show and a letter from her dog’s lawyer. Afterglow: (a dog memoir) - Kindle edition by Myles, Eileen. Punk poet Eileen Myles, on their dog memoir: 'We were regarded as an unruly pair' Emma Brockes Lauded by Lena Dunham and the basis of a character in TV show Transparent, the poet discusses. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Afterglow: (a dog memoir). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. But I suppose even our idols screw up sometimes, and alas, she has done This Thing. Afterglow: (a dog memoir) - Kindle edition by Myles, Eileen. ![]() And honestly, I expect better from Myles, who is a human institution of punk-rock ethos and unruly prose poetry, beloved by every avant-leaning professional woman writer I know. ![]() I just did not expect Eileen Myles, arbiter of gender-fucking literary cool, to be one of them. This is no vantage point from which to write a book, though I fear many people have. ![]()
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