![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() a “Working Life” is a book in which I throw my cards down, meaning the poems pretty much model the existence that is unfolding in all of them and these little formulas, short and long in which the plan gets revealed again and again was always to live exactly like this, and just once, now. For me, a “Working Life” is not so much unplugged as openly admitting that the poems here, the love poems and the waiting poems and the reveling in stark slowed down time is the essence of poetry as much as it was in my 20s as it is in in my 70s, like a grand contractual permission to be and the poems are the plan. What is the poetry equivalent of sitting on a chair like a musician with just a guitar, or a comedian on a stool on the cover of an album not even standup, but just going to tell it to you right here on vinyl. Co-presented by Back Cove Books and the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Reading/performance followed by discussion and audience Q&A. “One of the essential voices in American poetry” ( New York Times), the legendary poet, author and art journalist Eileen Myles makes their SPACE debut on the release of a new book, a “Working Life,” their first collection of poems since 2018. ![]()
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