5/8/2023 0 Comments Afterglow by Eileen Myles![]() ![]() To read this prose is practically to write your own first draft. Myles’s sentences tilt and wobble like a living mind: “Yet this inbetweenness, this aloneness, hear it now, is holy.” The energy breathes from writer to reader and back again. The voice on the page is so fluid and expressive and unembarrassed that it makes you want to join it. It’s the literary equivalent of an estuary: A river flows into an ocean, and the ocean flows right back into the river, and the mixing of salt water and fresh water creates a magic zone of abundant life where young fish gather and hover and feast and grow.Įileen Myles is an estuary of a writer. ![]() Something about the motion of their sentences lures your mind so close to theirs that, without even trying, in the absolutely normal course of reading, you absorb some of their creative energy. ![]() From “Afterglow (a dog memoir)” (Grove Press, 2017, ), by Eileen Myles, the author of 20 books of poetry and prose.Ĭertain writers make you want to write. ![]()
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