<div>&ldquo;A ravishingly strange and gorgeous book about a dog that&rsquo;s really about life and everything there is&hellip;astonishing.&rdquo; &mdash;Helen Macdonald, New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk In 1990, poet Eileen Myles chose Rosie from a litter of pit bulls on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer&#39;s life and work. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog&rsquo;s well-being, especially in her final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie&#39;s death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner. Through this lens, we witness Myles&rsquo;s experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we spin to get to the heart of grief. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles&rsquo;s childhood puppet to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull, from lyrical transcriptions of their walks to Rosie&rsquo;s enlightened narration from the afterlife, Afterglow illuminates all that it can mean when we dedicate our existence to a dog. &ldquo;Myles gets at something no other dog book I&rsquo;ve read has gotten at quite this distinctly: The sense of wordless connection and spiritual expansion you feel when you love and are loved by a creature who&rsquo;s not human&hellip;raw and affecting.&rdquo; &mdash;Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR</div>

Afterglow

<div>The new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Chelsea Girls reads like &ldquo;an arrival, a voice always becoming, unpinnable and queer&rdquo; (Natalie Diaz, New York Times Book Review). The first all-new collection of poems from Eileen Myles since 2011&rsquo;s Snowflake/different streets, Evolution follows the author&rsquo;s critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as a volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice. In these new poems, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that radiates insight, purpose, and risk while channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones. This long-awaited new collection &ldquo;lopes forward in the strutting style of the witnessing and sincere, but gorgeously nonaustere, poet in New York&hellip;The gift of Evolution is its bold depiction of the textually-rendered &lsquo;I&rsquo;-Eileen&rdquo; (Kenyon Review). A New York Times Book Review Editors&rsquo; Choice</div>

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Evolution

<div>"Myles speaks with one of the essential voices in American poetry." &#8212;New York TimesA collection of new and selected past work from one of America&#8217;s most celebrated poetsEileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which readers can peer into existent places, like the East Village of Myles's iconic Chelsea Girls. But they are also lifted into dreams, through writing that has the vividness and energy of fantasy.I Must Be Living Twice brings selections from the poet&#8217;s previous work together with a set of bold new poems, through which Myles continues to refine their sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, Myles's stomping grounds and the home of their most well-known work, they provide a wide-open lens into radical life.</div>

I Must Be Living Twice

<div>Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America&#39;s most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles&#8217; 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed &#8220;lesbianity,&#8221; and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist&#8217;s life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer&#8217;s education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.</div>

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