3.75 stars. My feelings are somewhat mixed, as I don't read much poetry in the meandering, better-read-out-loud style, and I'll likely YouTube some of their performances to get the full effect of the pieces here. That said, this is a really cool selection of Myles's poetry that I think both readers and non-readers of poetry would enjoy. It's nice to see the growth in their work over a forty-year span, through which they arrive at some thoughtful truths regarding matters of gender and feminism an...

I respect Myles more than I enjoy her work. I appreciate that she puts so much of herself into her poems. Almost all of them touch on one or more of: life as a lesbian, life in NYC, cats, drinking and smoking, being a poet, and life as a lesbian poet in NYC who smokes and drinks a lot. Her viewpoint is largely hedonic materialism, and she's a good advocate for it. However, it just doesn't scratch the itch for transcendence I have for poetry. I do like her pithiness and ability to wring impact ou...

ok im done with this

Poet Eileen Myles finally gets her due in this handsome overview of a long, fecund career--the lean, jagged poems cut and console. I need these poems in my life.I am always hungry& wanting to havesex. This is a fact....Why shouldn't something I have alwaysknown be thevery best thereis. I love youfrom mychildhood,starting backthere whenone day wasjust like therest, random growth andbreezes, constantlove, a sand-wich in themiddle ofday,a tiny stepin the vastlyconventional path ofthe Sun. Isquint.

Finding out I don’t think I enjoy poetry that much

didn’t love this collection, but i didn’t hate it! fave poem: peanut butter fave line: “Night / the old charmer is in love with / candles. Holds a fistful of / morning behind his back” (from along the strand)

"I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems" is a massive volume of poetry revealing a range of emotions, capturing energetic happiness and thrilling highs to crushing depressive lows, and the creativity and intensity of observations from the life of celebrated poet Eileen Myles (1949-). This volume covered the time frame between 1975-2014, showing the sharpness of evolving growth, emotional awareness and development which articulate/define the depth of maturity. Miles has written thousands

I didn't know a thing about Eileen Myles until I saw her read/perform in 2015. Her work stretches way back to the 1970s, and this collection selects the best poems from that decade up through 2012. Some advice: It helps to "get" the style of her poems if you hear and see her read them -- she has a cadence and emphasis that comes through in the spoken word versions that doesn't come through on the page as much. So as I was working my way through these 368 pages of poems (can you imagine writing t...

Myles’s poetry is quite different from Rich’s; her lines are short and jagged, often only three or four words each. Her style of thought is discursive: I often feel lost, reading her, until a vivid observation or connection jumps out. “Peanut Butter” is the poem that brought me to Myles, but the sweary dismissiveness of “On the Death of Robert Lowell” makes me laugh; “Yellow Tulips” is unashamedly happy; the opening of “Mal Maison” is devastating. “And Then the Weather Arrives” is maybe peak Myl...

This collection spans around 40 years, so obviously there's a lot of variation. That said, I felt as though a lot of these would work much better as spoken word and, lacking a mini Eileen Myles to pop up out of the book and perform impromptu slam poetry while I read, I sped through the book and wasn't terribly impressed.

An absolutely great read. A must read.

so beautiful ! i love this style of poetry and i love them! i am making my way through their works and their poetry feels like a warm subway car that almost lulls you to sleep on a rainy day. so reminiscent of home

Spanning almost four decades of work, I Must Be Living Twice gathers together an eclectic mix of Eileen Myles’s best poetry. The collection encompasses a wide range of candid poems addressing everything from autumn in New York to the euphoria of falling in love; almost all the pieces are autobiographical, fast moving, and centered on life in the city. In short fragmented lines, Myles speeds through difficult and light subjects alike, lending their work a sense of intense urgency, and their langu...

I'm gonna wallpaper my entire house with the pages of this book so I can never not be reading her poems.

better than ever! i still can't understand how eileen myles turned from annoying to my hero but there it is.

About halfway through, around the mid 90s, her poetry seems to decline. Even the best work is often scattershot, easily distracted, random, but these qualities start to take over until I found myself turning dozens of sparsely laid out pages for one memorable or recognisable image or thought.But there are brilliant moments, and two poems about tulips that I especially treasure.

I read this over 8 months, dipping into it every now and then on the train to and from the city and at home as a sort of respite, it was much less of a commitment than a novel and the fragmentation of this type of reading was really what I needed this year. Like all Myles' writing it felt youthful, undiluted, gritty and honest in the best ways but I wasn't moved by it as much as I had expected to be (at least not to the point where I flick back through the book and find several stanzas underline...

I love this collection so much - it’s spell bounding. I picked it up, and couldn’t put it down the first night I got it, and I keep revisiting it in short bursts. I really have no idea how to properly review it, but I feel like I should at least note my awe. It’s a huge collection - 39 years (1975-2014) of poetry. It’s very accessible. The poems are often in very short lines, making them easy to read. Sometimes they are run-on sentences, sometimes fragments - it’s also deceptively simple, there

I was drunk on water readinga loud poem/s due to the library tomorrow like an assignment I enjoyeda forced marathon I read them aloud with the confidence of someone role-playingthe poet who wrote them a.k.a. I was Eileen Myles tonightmy button-up shirt half unbuttoned because I got distracted on the route to my closet to changefor the futon where I folded up and readThese poems inspired me to write a postcarda classic "wish you were here" listening to me read these to you as if they were mine an...

I freakin love Eileen Myles - absolutely no one has ever made me want to be a poet so bad. No one else has made the words jump out of their poems and go about in my world. I kept this volume by my bed for so long, reading a poem or two now and then, and it's the only book of poetry I'd treat this way - I don't know why it's so special, but it really is. (Writing this review mainly to say I can't wait for her new book, about her dog, to be published. I can't wait.)