{"product_id":"eileen-myles-for-now-9780300261417","title":"For Now","description":"In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait.\"--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.\"--National Public Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is signature Myles: the unconventional syntax, the jazzy rhythms, the total commitment to writing in the heat of the moment, not edited or modulated by concessions to linear rationality.\"--Phil Gambone, Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Myles, time's \"optic quality\" is what enables writing in the first place--as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669846155606,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780300261417_1_9af4e77c-9938-416f-b0e7-7632e4389b23.jpg?v=1778825593","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/eileen-myles-for-now-9780300261417","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}