Cool for You, Paperback

Descriere

""A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde.""--The New York Times Why can't I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eileen Myles follows a queer female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her: family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. Free-ranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women, gender, class, bodies, escape, and what it means to be ""inside."" Never more relevant, and now with an introduction by Chris Kraus.

Despre autor

Eileen Myles

poetă americană · n. 1949

Cuthwulf Eileen Myles este o poetă și scriitoare americană care a publicat în ultimele trei decenii mai mult de douăzeci de volume de poezie, ficțiune, non-ficțiune, librete, piese de teatru și creații de performance. Romancierul Dennis Cooper a descris-o pe Myles ca „una dintre cele mai agere și cele mai neliniștite minți din literatura contemporană”.