po_Myles-EileenEileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is an American poet and writer.

She produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Myles is described as “one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature.” In 2012 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog’s life.

 

UPPITY
Eileen Myles

Roads around mountains
cause we can’t drive
through

That’s Poetry
to Me.