6/11/2023 0 Comments Afterglow by eileen mylesIn Afterglow (a dog memoir), I have an answer, and yet another example of the shadow life, the what-might-have-been, that divides Myles from me. In life, how does a bohemian poet cope with middle age? What does settling down look like for them? After multiple books that avoid the “memoir” label, what will they elect to write about that finally fixes it on the front cover? In the movies, dissolute youth often ends in a fiery wreck at the bottom of a ravine. The book did make me wonder how its author ended up, in a metaphysical sense. My experience with Chelsea Girls was practically anthropological, so distant was the content from anything I’ve lived, and it stirred in me both jealousy and relief. It’s a book wrought from the chaos of New York City in the 1970s: sex, crime, booze and drugs, poverty, and poetry. When I read Eileen Myles’s most famous book, Chelsea Girls, I found myself regretting my mild little life.
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