Bread and Water

by Eileen Myles

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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

[kari trail]

very much enjoyed this little book (the hanuman edition)! i actually think i have read most of these before in chelsea girls but somehow it reads different when the pages are tiny. her writing reminds me that everything works out, even when the world is weird and scary.

“i have waited all my life for permission. i feel it growing in my breast. a war is storming and it is behind me and i am moving my forces into life.”

[Cleo]

The most truthful queer writing there could be

[Elaine Adams]

I really want to be able to romanticize the angsty life of the smoking drinking poet in the city but I have a hard time

[Elina]

Never leaving my Eileen Myles fase, what a special little book to have in my collection ♥︎

[Vicky]

Didn't realize until I got to "Bath, Maine" that I had read these stories already as they were reprinted in CHELSEA GIRLS, a book that I abandoned halfway thru because I had a sort of overdose of Eileen Myles's voice and couldn't hear sentences with punctuation anymore. Ok, now I can return this book back to Southern Connecticut.

[olive parker]

should i curate a ranking or just let them all exist together (i think the latter)

[Katharina Cecilia]

Beautiful… please I need more…

[Emma Vermeulen]

Unique little book (didn't read this edition, but a beautiful tiny yellow one by Hanuman Editions) that reads like a diary or a written down monologue. Kind of raw and very personal and interesting.

[Sara]

dog eared books had a bunch of these tiny books. years later my dog thought it was a snack, still have the dog chewed copy