{"product_id":"19895","title":"Not Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Eileen Myles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Semiotext(e) (1991)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eListen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.\u003c\/em\u003e This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCool For You\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. They are one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eNot Me\u003c\/em\u003e is the biography of an American outlaw... a poet who believes in action as well as acts of imagination.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e–The Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Myles basically talks shit in skinny columns and calls them poems. Thing is, [they have] one of the savviest voices and most restless intellects in contemporary lit—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Dennis Cooper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Myles is a female adventurer... a peripatetic poet on a mission to amplify herself and to live large as the heroic anti-hero of her poems.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e–Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32502591651939,"sku":"9780936756677","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/products\/image_754e5b9d-9c9a-4d2a-a78c-567b2450dc32.jpg?v=1651881392","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/19895","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}