On My Way

by Eileen Myles

Book by Myles, Eileen

Genres: Poetry

70 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Eileen Myles is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.

Reviews

[C.A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who the FUCK are these people on here who gave this book 2 stars! I'm so outraged by that! 2 STARS!? Are you fucking kidding me? Did they even READ this book? ON MY WAY is without a doubt one of THE MOST perfect books of poetry around. Every poem, every single poem HITS IT! READ THIS:


NOW LAUGH

There's some
initial
poverty
you gave
me, I
spend
it in
the spring
behind
everyone
to be anywhere
at all
is to
betray
it, this
sack
of loss
this secret
passed
mother
to daughter
an element
a detail
so slow
like a
tear ripping
through
my life
till I'm
simply
fingers
searching
for my
parts


In the back of ON MY WAY is a brilliant 9-page essay called "The End of New England" which is worth the cost of the book alone. Myles's cultural and poetic eyes/ears/SOUL will put the cynics on their dumb asses!

For the absolute LOVE of poetry,
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[Mic Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The centre of any linguistic use is use and closing the distance.” Eileen’s writing is for us behind cash registers reading the repetition and rhythms of each shift like a stanza.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a relationship / click / this is a relationship

[Julene]

Read a long time ago and loved it.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely book of poems, though the 4th star is really for the essay at the end of the book.

[Marissa Perel · Rating 3 out of 5]

why I wanted a dog