Skies

by Myles, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9781574231748
• ISBN10: 157423174X
• Format: Paperback
• 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	13	(18)
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``You think it's one color...''	31	(1)
``There's this gesture...''	32	(1)
``All the sex radicals...''	33	(1)
``There are the stripes of my day''	34	(1)
``Jonathan's''	35	(2)
``How I see''	37	(3)
``I bet''	40	(3)
The Sky	43	(1)
``He said''	44	(1)
``Wickety morning''	45	(2)
``The whole mess''	47	(3)
``The couple next''	50	(2)
At Mills	52	(1)
HI BUZZ	53	(2)
To the Air	55	(2)
``a cloud''	57	(1)
Wealth	58	(1)
My Wife Is Shopping	59	(2)
Pop	61	(4)
P-town	65	(1)
A Young Swan	66	(5)
Crazy Limb	71	(1)
Poem for Patsy	72	(2)
``Twenty years ago''	74	(2)
Poem from an airplane	76	(1)
``This puppy's been through hell''	77	(2)
``Big harpoons''	79	(1)
Writing	80	(2)
Nameless	82	(1)
The Center	83	(4)
``My mind's pretty juicy''	87	(1)
Itself	88	(4)
Visitor's Center	92	(1)
40th Street	93	(2)
Uppity	95	(1)
``Language''	96	(1)
Cat	97	(6)
2
Milk	103	(2)
And	105	(1)
Ink	106	(2)
Snakes	108	(3)
Infinity Mini	111	(4)
Trucks	115	(2)
Orleans	117	(4)
Voluminous	121	(3)
Louisiana	124	(1)
Seattle Harbor	125	(3)
Mt. St. Helens	128	(3)
``Better than most''	131	(2)
My Light	133	(2)
``More,''	135	(1)
Karma	136	(1)
[Crystalline Studio, 1999]	137	(2)
Where's ya camera	139	(2)
The Beach	141	(1)
Cup	142	(1)
Gathering Force	143	(4)
Shout!	147	(1)
Melanie	148	(3)
Miss Me	151	(6)
Splash	157	(1)
My Hat	158	(2)
``in the letter''	160	(1)
``I don't know''	161	(1)
Weather	162	(2)
Sympathy	164	(2)
My Friend	166	(1)
Scientific American	167	(4)
Resolution	171	(2)
``When I grew up''	173	(2)
Trim	175	(4)
Light	179	(4)
Mental Ownership	183	(5)
30 Miles	188	(1)
Road Buddy	189	(2)
Bone	191	(2)
The Guest	193	(9)
Inauguration Day	202	(3)
Sky's the Limit (cont'd)	205