Evolution / Eileen Myles

The new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Chelsea Girls reads like ';an arrival, a voice always becoming, unpinnable and queer' (Natalie Diaz,New York Times Book Review). The first all-new collection of poems from Eileen Myles since 2011'sSnowflake/different streets, Evolution follows the author's critically acclaimedAfterglow (a dog memoir), as well as a volume of selected poems,I Must Be Living Twice. In these new poems, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that radiates insight, purpose, and risk while channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones. This long-awaited new collection ';lopes forward in the strutting style of the witnessing and sincere, but gorgeously nonaustere, poet in New YorkThe gift ofEvolutionis its bold depiction of the textually-rendered ';I'-Eileen' (Kenyon Review). A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice