{"product_id":"for-now-9780300261417","title":"For Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this third \u003ci\u003eWhy I Write\u003c\/i\u003e volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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, \u003ci\u003eGay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For 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, \u003ci\u003eFor Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty-two works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Warhol\/Creative Capital grant, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620259205394,"sku":"9780300261417","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8496e1d-46d5-4858-8b57-91866757640f.jpg?v=1732562309","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/for-now-9780300261417","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}