{"product_id":"a-working-life-hardcover","title":"A Working Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"one of the essential voices in American poetry\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first new collection since \u003ci\u003eEvolution\u003c\/i\u003e from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, \u003ci\u003ea \"Working Life\"\u003c\/i\u003e unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics always engage with permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder.\u003ci\u003ea \"Working Life\"\u003c\/i\u003e is a book transfixed by the everyday: the \"sweet accumulation\" of birds outside a window, a cup of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover's foot on the bed. These poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, or simply in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog in all the places that held us during the pandemic lockdowns. Myles's lines unabashedly sing the happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings about the not-so future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and also find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring for one another and our world.With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, \u003ci\u003ea \"Working Life\"\u003c\/i\u003e shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEILEEN MYLES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(they\/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include \u003ci\u003ePathetic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFor Now\u003c\/i\u003e (an essay\/talk about writing), \u003ci\u003eEvolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfterglow (a dog memoir)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Must Be Living Twice: new and selected poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Trip\u003c\/i\u003e, their super-8 puppet road film can be seen on YouTube. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693546967103,"sku":"9780802161895","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f404788accc12e60c3dd3a5dfae269a9.webp?v=1764999305","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-working-life-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}