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Inferno
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Wonderful biography by the poet Eileen Myles about growing up gay in Boston and then pursuing poetry in N…more

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Megan
Mar 26, 2011 rated it it was amazing
"Everything was pathetic and it wouldn't stop. I'm a mess. And I could show how that looked. I resigned myself to continuous movement. Like I'm drawing. Like if there is "a form" it exists independent of me, or else I'm complicit in it. I'm wandering in it. Underlining. Changing horses all the time. And each decision left a mark.
And I lay there in the hot New York night writing my poem to Alice, to Susie, to everyone I knew--about being--not in literature, not in relation to some historical for
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Rachel
Jun 23, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Good god. Just read this book please. If you’re a writer or a poet or an appreciator of either, go for this book.
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