Skies: New Poems
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: Used - As New
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, November 2001.
ISBN: 1574231766
In a departure from earlier work, Eileen Myles' Skies is a book of pared-down, cloud-like poems, wisp-like on the page yet as intensely colored as a sunset. Although their work conjures the texture of wind and the broad spaces of the sky, these poems are not serenely pastoral. Rather, Myles' sparse blank verse is concerned with the diaphanous qualities of perception, as if her momentary experiences were as slippery and translucent as clouds. A sometimes brutal loneliness and urgent but stoic sensuality results, finding its expression in simple colors: orange, grey, yellow, white, rose.
8vo. 213 pages. signed by author. limited edition, copy letter 'B'. text block crisp. crease to rear pastedown. in protective Brodart. $NRPItem #181434
Price: $275.00