The New York poet has been writing since the mid-70s but with new fans – like Lena Dunham – she’s become one of 2015s most celebrated literary starsFor someone so indelibly associated with the East Village,it comes as no surprise when Eileen Myles suggests we meet in a gap-in-the-wall-type café to talk approximately this “shocking moment” (her words) in her career. That “moment” is being described as her ascension into the mainstream. It’s taken a while to come – she’s 19 books into a career – but this week Myles has two books out from a commercial publisher: a reprint of her autobiographical novel Chelsea Girls, and I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2015. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com