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Eileen Myles has done it once again—delivering poems so deceptively simple this reader is shocked by the intimacies and revelations within. In a “working life,” they make it look easy—this dance between the scrupulous ecstasy of the present while never far off is the concern for the future of our planet. a "working life" was published yesterday by Grove. Congratulations, Eileen!
Here's a sample poem from the book:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/march-3
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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