School of Fish

by Myles, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9781574230314
• ISBN10: 157423031X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr

Summary

In School of Fish Eileen Myles hooks our attention and reels it in with a pulsing, sinuous rush of images seized from urban life's experimental flow: Illuminating these densely and intensely alive new poems is an eloquent and revealing prose essay, "The Lesbian Poet", wherein Myles addresses the sources of her art, paying homage to her favorite living poets and early influences, and spelling out her own vitalist / proprioceptive aesthetic: "I think we all write out poems with our metabolism, our sexuality, for me a poem has always been an imagined body of a sort, getting that down in time, it moves this way and that, it is full of its own sense of possibility". With agility, grace and speed, Eileen Myles explores poetic possibilities, stretching linguistic boundaries while hungrily searching for the taste of life's quick core. "I have this compulsion to live no matter what..".

Table of Contents

1	15	(120)
The Troubador	15	(13)
43	28	(1)
Effigy	29	(2)
Road Warrior	31	(1)
School of Fish	32	(2)
The Open & the Close	34	(2)
Notice	36	(3)
Glove	39	(1)
In the Rain	40	(1)
Twilight Train	41	(4)
Taxing	45	(3)
Porn Poems	48	(1)
Last Supper	49	(3)
Eileen's Vision	52	(3)
Animal Sounds	55	(2)
Poem for My New Fortunes	57	(2)
Merk	59	(6)
Nancy at 40	65	(2)
Greek	67	(3)
Just God	70	(3)
"the woods..."	73	(1)
Meow Mix	74	(2)
Mr. Twenty	76	(6)
Me II	82	(2)
Needles	84	(6)
1993	90	(31)
The Lesbian Poet	121	(14)
2	135
Kurt	135	(2)
Aurora	137	(3)
How I Lost My Notebook	140	(6)
The City	146	(1)
An Explanation	147	(1)
Greetings	148	(1)
Christmas	149	(3)
White Orchids	152	(1)
Limbo	153	(1)
Spaceless	154	(2)
Odalisk	156	(3)
True North	159	(6)
A Poem	165	(1)
Gold	166	(4)
Woo	170	(1)
At a Waterfall, Reykjavik	171	(1)
Rotting Symbols	172	(4)
Bob Dylan	176	(1)
Absolutely Earth	177	(2)
Mom	179	(1)
Sullivan's Brain	180	(4)
My War Is Love	184	(4)
Story	188	(1)
Waterfall	189	(2)
Tonight	191	(2)
No No	193