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    Afterglow (a dog memoir)

    By Eileen Myles

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  • Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction to work on Afterglow, the writer’s first foray into memoir

  • Myles publishes widely in journals and magazines—including Harper’s, the Nation, the New York Times, and Literary Hub—and appears for readings and lectures around the world

  • Poems written by—and a character based on—Myles appeared in seasons 2 and 3 of the Emmy-winning Amazon show Transparent

  • The publication of I Must Be Living Twice received an outpouring of media coverage, and Myles achieved celebrity status, hailed as a “a big deal” (NPR) and “that rare creature, a rock star of poetry” (Boston Globe)

  • Myles’s novel Chelsea Girls will be made into an Amazon miniseries

  • In the grand tradition of writers paying homage to a beloved dog—Mark Doty’s Dog Years, J. R. Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip, Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs, Amy Hempel’s stories, as well as Virginia Woolf’s Flush, even Abigail Thomas’s A Three Dog Life and John Grogan’s Marley & Me—Myles offers a unique, unforgettable tribute to Rosie the pit bull

  • Afterglow deftly examines the peculiar relationship between people and their pets, a universal subject that will appeal to new readers, while Myles’s original style and unusual approach will thrill the writer’s massive cult following

  • This is the first in Grove’s four-book commitment to Myles, with a new book of poems Evolution forthcoming, as well as an anthology called Pathetic Literature and The Eileen Myles Reader
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrove Press
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9780802188786
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    Afterglow (a dog memoir)
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    Eileen Myles

    Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Pathetic Literature, which they edited, came out in fall 2022. a “Working Life,” their newest collection of poems, is out now. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.

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    • 5/5
      Wow! This book is stunning - ostensibly a tribute to her dog and their relationship, it manages to be that and a meditation on life, living in the present, death, poetry and the existential condition [among other things]. Multi-layered and using multiple literary techniques, this poetic exploration is both luminous and profane. At turns somber and laugh-out-loud hilarious, parts of the book can tend to seem rather inscrutable, but not in a particularly difficult way. Though the reader can still glean something from these formidable parts - the meaning may allude them. "...the proper refuge will have occurred and everyone will be beginning to live slowly in the right time with themselves. Because there is no kingdom now and the end is only when the road has invited us to leave."
    • 4/5
      I think a lot of the time poets' prose efforts can be so packed that they're by nature uneven—I guess you can say the same for poetry as well. That's definitely the case with this book, and honestly I get the feeling that Eileen Myles would be just fine with the idea of taking what you want and leaving the rest. Some of it is just gorgeous, lyrical, madly associative and evocative. And some of it is just too dense or esoteric for the likes of me, and I was perfectly happy to read along and let some of it settle to the bottom in order for the stuff that resonated for me to rise. Although Myles definitely stretches the definition of "a dog memoir," there is some marvelous writing on dogs, and about dog ownership in particular—both the intense scrutiny that's borne out of love and also the dilemma of all that tenderness and adoration weighed against the wrongness of leading another living being around by the neck. I love Myles's directness, often bordering on crudeness, and the love that shines through it all for her Rosie—"the physiognomy of dearness unsurpassed." This one takes a little suspension of the need to get every sentence, but the rewards are great.