I Must Be Living Twice

CREDITS

COVER DESIGN BY ALLISON SALTZMAN
HAND-LETTERING BY EILEEN MYLES
COVER PHOTOGRAPH © BY CATHERINE OPIE

Everything Orpheus, Sappho, and Dante knew, she knows, and more.”
—Ariana Reines

Five thousand years from now people will still be reading Eileen Myles. T

These poems are written with a certain tender affection for the human experience that could only be conveyed through Myles’s careful, yet effortlessly flowing prose.”
—Mira Gonzalez

is as heartbreaking as it is generous and uplifting.

The lady is a tramp with a lonely quill in her hand and a tree’s bark to write on. More spirit than flesh, more beast than man, you’ll see this in the poems, the beautiful poems.”

The sharpness of her intellect is matched by the quick, terse, idiomatic way she exercises her lyrical powers. I Must Be Living Twice is a landmark to revere and love.”

Myles’s poems come disguised as photographs but are actually transfigurations, reality’s usual arrangements turned inside out.

these brilliant, funny, tuneful poems—a reckless new kind of melody, with leaps and tempo changes and atonalities of urgent truthfulness.

She has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, the Shelley Memorial Award for poetry, and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for her novel Inferno. She lives in New York City.