Since her start reading poetry at famed New York City music club CBGB's in 1974, Myles has authored over 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and stage productions. She has been described as poetry’s rock star, "a lesbian culture hero", and by Holland Cotter in The New York Times, “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde." Her literature has been reviewed and lauded by numerous publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Artforum.
Eileen Myles’ notable and influential writings can be found in the publications "Not Me" (Semiotext(e), 1991), "Chelsea Girls" (Black Sparrow, 1994), "Inferno" (OR Books, 2010), and most recently "Snowflake/different streets" (Wave Books, 2012). Her essay “Street Retreat” was part of the Semiotext(e) installation at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and her essay “Twice,” written for the catalogue of the 2014 Liverpool Biennial, will be the afterword in I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems 1975-2013, out from Ecco/HarperCollins in fall 2015.
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