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Book Synopsis"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."--Dennis Cooper "[Myles' writing] comes across simultaneously as effortless and utterly gorgeous...To be able to write with such gentleness and force all at the same time is such a gift, and Myles is completely generous in how she uses this."--Ron Silliman Two books meet as one in legendary poet, critic, and novelist Eileen Myles' newest collection. In a world overflowing with technology and its mutant offspring, moments of human ecstasy and connection are as indelible as they are fleeting. Indeed, with every page, the poems of Snowflake and different streets create poet and poem anew. some cars seem to erupt from the tar itself they seem to pull themselves up from below the surface of the land though I don't think land. I mean something flat, something black almost like a water that we're on though a dark water that holds us. Eileen Myles has published more than a dozen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction. She was recently awarded the 2010 Shelley Memorial Award for poetry and, for her novel Inferno, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She lives in New York.
Table of ContentsSNOWFLAKE Contents TRANSITIONS DAY NO EXCUSE OBSERVANCE NO RAIN WRITING SNOWFLAKE #1 (with music) #2 #3 (PEACH. . . ) #4 PALM TREE #5 DRIVING #6 (EILEEN. . . ) # 7 DARK WATER # 8 CAR CAMERA #9 DESTROYING US #10 BALL #11 THE LINES #12 MAN’S BEAUTY ANDREA VILLA CALL IT IN ROCK ON Questions LIKE To Weave TRANSPORTATION KILLER’S CRY phone isn’t MORE OIL D.H. CUTE COMPUTER TO MY CLASS GIRLFRIEND UNLIKELY MY MONSTER EILEEN Howland AD Sunday THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELAND CHOKE DIFFERENT STREETS Contents CAESAREAN TOOTHBRUSH 2008: FOR EMMA Pencil Poems Pencil Poem #2 Pencil Poem #3 The new poems Pencil #4 #5 # 6 in and out November 11 THE NERVOUS ENTERTAINMENT SEAGULL THE MOVIE THE BIRDS?? LEAVING LA NEIGE YOUR NAME MITTEN HI IDIOT HO JUNE 5 BECAME THE WEATHER SMILE THE PERFECT FACELESS FISH About Mary TO THE MOUNTAINS YOUR HOUSE WHAT’S OPEN? POPSICLE NO CALIFORNIA SNOWFLAKE MY BOX PERFECT NIGHT GLOWING STICK
