Evolution - Eileen Myles

Category: Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Loss Love

Written by Eileen Myles
Read by Eileen Myles
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

In Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem:

Something
unearthly
about
today
so I buy
a Diet Coke &
a newspaper
a version of “me”
something
about me on the
earth & its sneakers
& feeling like
the earth’s furniture
but that can’t be
true or like
the coke & the Times
it’s true for a little
while.

May 17 2019
2 hrs and 4 mins