THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELAND

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELANDFrom the press: Poet and post punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the citywandering on garbage strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spitseeing it with a poet's eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing

the apocalypse as revelation leads to Arabic tradition’s vertiginous extension

and acquaintances

And in 2011

On the one hand

She’s cartooniness without even pictures or laughs

From NMB: Once we latched onto Johnson’s swerving

she reconsiders her lesson plan and arrives at a creative solution

what will it actually be like

The title sequence is phrases to photographs taken by the author as if photographing the inside of dense phenomenal existence floating

a book of poems

The version in this volume first appeared in A Very Original Book

like an experience