Skies

by Myles, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9781574231762
• ISBN10: 1574231766
• Edition: Limited
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr

Summary

In her new book of poems Eileen Myles (author of Black Sparrow's Chelsea Girls, School of Fish and Maxfield Parrish) drags the chatty abstraction of New York School Poetry kicking and screaming into the passionate and mercurial landscape of the sky above. This hard-edged book about life in lower Manhattan concludes with a powerful and erotic sequence of love poems, woman to woman. Skies is Myles' strongest and most surprising book yet.

Table of Contents

Sky's the Limit	p. 13
"You think it's one color ..."	p. 31
"There's this gesture ..."	p. 32
"All the sex radicals ..."	p. 33
"There are the stripes of my day"	p. 34
"Jonathan's"	p. 35
"How I see"	p. 37
"I bet"	p. 40
The Sky	p. 43
"He said"	p. 44
"Wickety morning"	p. 45
"The whole mess"	p. 47
"The couple next"	p. 50
At Mills	p. 52
Hi Buzz	p. 53
To the Air	p. 55
"a cloud"	p. 57
Wealth	p. 58
My Wife Is Shopping	p. 59
Pop	p. 61
P-town	p. 65
A Young Swan	p. 66
Crazy Limb	p. 71
Poem for Patsy	p. 72
"Twenty years ago"	p. 74
Poem from an airplane	p. 76
"This puppy's been through hell"	p. 77
"Big harpoons"	p. 79
Writing	p. 80
Nameless	p. 82
The Center	p. 83
"My mind's pretty juicy"	p. 87
Itself	p. 88
Visitor's Center	p. 92
40th Street	p. 93
Uppity	p. 95
"Language"	p. 96
Cat	p. 97
Milk	p. 103
And	p. 105
Ink	p. 106
Snakes	p. 108
Infinity Mini	p. 111
Trucks	p. 115
Orleans	p. 117
Voluminous	p. 121
Louisiana	p. 124
Seattle Harbor	p. 125
Mt. St. Helens	p. 128
"Better than most"	p. 131
My Light	p. 133
"More,"	p. 135
Karma	p. 136
[Crystalline Studio, 1999]	p. 137
Where's ya camera	p. 139
The Beach	p. 141
Cup	p. 142
Gathering Force	p. 143
Shout!	p. 147
Melanie	p. 148
Miss Me	p. 151
Splash	p. 157
My Hat	p. 158
"in the letter"	p. 160
"I don't know"	p. 161
Weather	p. 162
Sympathy	p. 164
My Friend	p. 166
Scientific American	p. 167
Resolution	p. 171
"When I grew up"	p. 173
Trim	p. 175
Light	p. 179
Mental Ownership	p. 183
30 Miles	p. 188
Road Buddy	p. 189
Bone	p. 191
The Guest	p. 193
Inauguration Day	p. 202
Sky's the Limit (cont'd)	p. 205
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