<DIV><p>“One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”—Dennis Cooper</p><p>Eileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. <I>BUST</I> magazine calls her “the rock star of modern poetry” and <I>The New York Times</I> says she's “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.”</p><p>Myles' trademark punk-lesbian sensibility and intimate knowledge of poetic tradition are at work in this eighth collection, where every love poem is political, and every political poem is, ultimately, about love.</p><p> <b>From “Home”:</b></p><p> <I>I thought if</I><br> <I>I inventoried home it would be broad</I><br> <I>my eyes fling open</I><br> <I>like a doll's</I><br> <I>to the virtual space that suddenly</I><br> <I>resembles the walls</I><br> <I>the most interesting artists are large;</I><br> <I>monsters</I><br> <I>while the people we know are</I><br> <I>masses of flowers</I><br> <I>& when I turn</I><br> <I>on my cellphone I see</I><br> <I>everyone</I></p><p> <b>Eileen Myles </b>has published over a dozen books of poetry, prose, and plays. Formerly the director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, as well as a write-in candidate for president in 1992, she now teaches at the University of California, San Diego. In 1997 Myles toured with Sister Spit's Ramblin' Road Show. Her books include <I>Skies, on my way, Cool for You (a novel), School of Fish, Maxfield Parrish, Not Me,</I> and <I>Chelsea Girls</I> (stories).</p></DIV>