She was named by BUST magazine as “the rock star of modern poetry” & that would usually be the death knell for a poet in my book, but in the case of Eileen Myles, it’s only slightly hyperbolic. She was at Elliott Bay Book last night for a Wave Press authors event and unlike Maggie Nelson, who also read, the book Myles was promoting was not a Wave title. Myles acknowledged this by saying it was kinda like having an affair.
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