{"product_id":"snowflake-different-streets-paperback","title":"Snowflake\/Different Streets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature--honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.--Dennis Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo 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 \u003ci\u003eSnowflake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003edifferent streets\u003c\/i\u003e create poet and poem anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003esome cars seem to erupt\u003cbr\u003efrom the tar itself\u003cbr\u003ethey seem to pull\u003cbr\u003ethemselves up\u003cbr\u003efrom below the surface of the land\u003cbr\u003ethough I don't think land. I mean something flat, something\u003cbr\u003eblack\u003cbr\u003ealmost like a water that we're on\u003cbr\u003ethough a dark water that\u003cbr\u003eholds us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1949, was educated in catholic schools, graduated from U. Mass. (Boston) in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. She quickly became part of the reading, publishing, and performance scene in the East Village, editing \u003ci\u003edodgems\u003c\/i\u003e in the late '70s and becoming part of the community of St. Mark's Poetry Project where she studied and was friends with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Paul Violi, and Bill Zavatsky. In 1979, she was assistant to poet James Schuyler. She was Artistic Director of the Poetry Project, 1984-86. Myles is a vivid interpreter of her own work and travels widely in the US and Canada and internationally giving readings and performances. In 2007, she published \u003ci\u003eSorry, Tree\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books), the latest of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction including \u003ci\u003eChelsea Girls, Not Me, Skies, The New Fuck You\/adventures in lesbian reading, Cool for You\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eInferno (A Poet's Novel)\u003c\/i\u003e published by OR books. A new book of poems, \u003ci\u003eSnowflake \/ different streets\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published by Wave Books in 2011. She wrote the libretto for \u003ci\u003eHell\u003c\/i\u003e, an opera with music composed by Michael Webster, which was performed on both coasts, 2004-2006. In 2007, she received The Warhol\/Creative Capital art writers' grant. In 2010, the Poetry Society of America gave her the Shelley Memorial Award. She contributes to a wide number of publications including \u003ci\u003eArtForum, Bookforum, Parkett\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e. She's a Prof. Emeritus at UC San Diego where she taught for five years. She lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 6.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2013)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165332312199,"sku":"9781933517582","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/416a7e43b8567b3daf52896678b1d945.webp?v=1733312793","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/snowflake-different-streets-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}