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girls, alcoholism, books and all round amazing writing, Eileen Myles is the best, Sections in here about going to Woodstock, signing a book for Allen Ginsburg and staying at the Chelsea Hotel, Only a few pages in, I was beginning to regret my choice, Should I just put this book back down and pretend I've never even aimed for reading it What is this



It doesn't get more sexdrugs and rock'n roll than this.
Written in thes, American poet Eileen Myles retells fictionalised stories of how she's experienced the three preceding decades, With an Catholic background and alcoholic father, she's out to live through the wildest of times ins New York,

"See, I come from an alcoholic household, and resultantly kind of don't react to violence, I think it terrifies me, but I am so drawn to it, I never hit anyone, but I would love to kill a lot of people, "

Myles writing is aggressively straightforward and careless, Sentences like "it was a gorgeous sunny day, my best friend had just died and I was getting Alice some pills, one last trip, and I felt great" confused me more than they entertained me at first, but as I was thinking about whether to abandon this, I found myself being drawn in.


What irritated me at first, suddenly became humorous, Myles doesn't censor her words, she's unabashed and disarming, She's here to have sex and a good time and these stories are here to prove it, Short and fastpaced anecdotes, these tales hit you with a load of names who are all these people, a lot of drugs and a lot of fun.
There isn't much direction to them, but then I'd claim that there wasn't to Myles's life either, This is raw, funny, and wild, I'm not sure what I want to sy about the book, I did very much enjoy it, Bit of a crass laungage used, something that I often don't like in the books I read, I often stop reading if I find it having to much of a foul laungage as I feel it's somewhat of an unnecessary way of proving a point.
But I have to say it quite worked in this, It was a very intruiging memoir of Eileen Myles, even though I don't know who she is but I enjoyed reading her journey of coming of age "I love butch ne'erdowells," I told a friend in explanation of my crush on Eileen Myles.
And if there was a ever a book about that particular type, their alcoholsoaked debut Chelsea Girls is it, Is it a novel A series of connected short stories A memoir in pieces An extended prosepoem Much like the indistinct area between butch and trans man that Myles now inhabits, the answer isn't either/or but rather yes, and.
This book is sleazily sexy and funny and sad, even when sometimes its main purpose seems to be establishing the mythic figure of Eileen Myles, Famous Poet.
And honestly, I'm here for it, Aburrido, soso, repetitivo, estilo plano, . . "Pero es que la autora lo escribió cuando estaba enganchada al speed", Y ahí tenéis la moraleja, no escribáis drogados, No sale bien. A menos que seáis Stephen King, On the front cover it says "A novel, " But the back blurb calls it "cobbled together memories, " Online one finds "stories" as well, this from the author herself, Perhaps best to consider it a "memoir" as it's fragmentary and nonlinear, so perhaps outside of a straight autobiography, if you want to hold the form to those rules.
At any rate, we have no way of knowing if the texts "cobbled together" here are actually at all imaginaryor is "fictionalized" merely a way of changing names to protect the innocent here Thus fiction only to expose greater truth

Well, all expectations aside thensince we can't really know much of anything or really calibrate how genre will effect our readinglet's see how the text presents itself As I said, fragmentary and nonlinear, it follows a single "I" apparently, Eileen Mylesthe author or a figure like Dante's pilgrimwhose life experiences line up perfectly with what we know of the author, poet Eileen Myles.
Thus I rate this atstars, an engrossing series of memoirs about a person interesting to me because a NYC Bohemian poet, The artistry sells a genre memoir I'm not all that interested in, as well as a certain amount of recognition valueI, too, lived in the East Village only three blocks from Eileen, if for a much shorter time, and also write, and also came from a suburb, thus I reveled in the kindredspiritness of it, while also voyeristically enjoying the difference of her life from minequeerness, femaleness, babyboomerness v.
my genXitude. Allinall a great read due to great writing technique and the form of freeform

memories swirling, She really captures perfectly the way we speak of ourselves, tell each other stories, recount memories at a later date, full of digressions and reframings.
The text itself claims she is a great talker even as it proves it through writing,

I can't wait to find a volume or two of Ms, Myles poetry to read now, She is a great stylist, I love the way this is written, and the disjointed way that the Irish Catholic teenagerhood is compared to their later life, I LOVE streamofconsciousness writing always, and this is done in such an interesting modern way, this book really reminds me that it is ok to not be having the bestest time of my whole life all the time because life has ups and downs! a good first book for february sometimes i am already feeling like i wont survive the semester but reading books about gay people will get me through! i think if i would reread this collection of memoiresque vignettes by Eileen Myles, i would probably read one a week, out of order until i was finished.
Then each one would stand on its own and be able to to savored or scorned by its own merits, Unfortunately, i read it pretty much cover to cover well, almost, couldn't quite finish it and honestly became quite bored with it, At times brutal, hilarious, fierce, blase, superficial, a well of unending sadness, these glimpses of life, of lives, that would otherwise mostly be at turns over looked or fetishized is a worthy read.
I recommend reading it like it was a collection of individual histories, stories i think then it would capture the light/dark of her voice.
"I lay on the bed, fascinated by the acrid taste of piss, yet horrified at the inadequacies
of my tape collection, " Eileen makes me feel loved and in love, brings me closer to myself! This is genuinely the worst book I ever read, The only logical explanation for why it has more than one star is that I exist as a side character in a Truman Show type simulation that centers around a tote bag septum ring instagram poet Bushwick girl with finance parents who pretends shes poor Never was able to pinpoint exactly why this didn't quite worked for me beyond brilliant brief flashes amp intermittent stretches reaching the end I finally started feeling more on its wavelength.
. . but even then it just never really gelled for me, To be clear I suspect this is more a commentary about me than the book itself, amp even before finishing was acknowledging I will need to give this another go someday.
It happens!

"You cant force a story that doesnt want to be told, " Eileen Myles has a beautiful way of describing all the confusion and feelings that happen when you are young and trying to figure out life and who you are and you just go with your gut feelings and reactions even though you know deep down inside you probably shouldn't but you do it anyway.
Sometimes it turns out amazing and all you hoped it would be and a lot of times it turns to shit but it is always worth it because you are having an adventure and experiences that add to who you are as a person.
I love their writing and the way they can describe all these churning emotions and good decisions and so many bad decisions so perfectly,and best reads pile, I devoured this book. There is some pretty tough stuff to read in this book and this is pretty autobiographical so then you know they had it rough at times, but it is so worth it to glimpse into the world of such a beautiful honest soul.
If on the off chance civilization survives the next few years, I hope Chelsea Girls graduates from “cult classic” to “canon”, Imagine we could have a canon that was sexy and ferocious and fun to read! The best pieces here are brilliant about growing up a poet, a lesbian, an alcoholic, and a genius.
Even the less successful pieces are very useful tutorials on new ways of putting paragraphs together, you know, for those of us who are sick to death of the traditional forms of the story or the novel.
And this collection proves, again, that we can and must feel free to call /anything/ a novel, even a ham sandwich, chips, and a pickle.
And the SEX the sex is the sex is the way sex actually feels, That was an important surprise for me, I mean, Im a queer guy and so most of the sex in this book was sex with an entirely different selection of parts than any sex Ive ever had and yet it came so much closer than most writing to what sex actually feels like.
Im grateful I got to learn that, So, just because all your hippest lesbian friends are carrying this book dont imagine its somehow /reserved/ for them, No way! Steal it when theyre not looking, OK, /borrow/ it. Its a brilliant frolic and cautionary tale, as well as merciful company for anyone struggling to survive as a poor and horny artist, Nämen snälla vad är det här Som att vara med om magi på riktigt, En helt underbar textvärld att få vara i, Lever upp, känner på riktigt, vill knarka, Haha. Nej, men ni fattar. I read the greater part of this book on a plane ride home, next to a man who looked sponsored by realtree, His phone's background was a picture of his toddler son on top of his tractor, After he started whiteknuckling the communal armrests, it became pretty obvious that this earthoriented man was terrified of flying, Poor guy. During the flight's turbulence, he became desperate for a conversation partner, We chattedhe showed me more pictures of cars with babies on top of themand eventually he asked me what I was reading, Knowing that I was going to be beside this guy for the next three hours, I gave an obfuscatory answer that avoided all the drugs and lesbiansbut I also didn't stop him from flipping through the pages.
"This book is crazy. It's all about drugs and lesbians," he told me, He was freaked, but he was such a good sport about it, I could tell you what I got out of this book, but I think it's more fun to imagine that guys perspective, I regret not giving him my copy,

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