Eileen Myles at Bridge Street, Sunday 10/4, 6 PM

SUNDAY, October 4th, 6:00 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at Bridge Street Books presents

EILEEN MYLES

A reading for her new books from Ecco Press/HarperCollings
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
and the autobiographical novel Chelsea Girls

Eileen Myles has published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, and fiction and libretti. She's a Guggenheim Fellow, has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America and a Lambda Award for lesbian fiction, and was named to the Whiting/Slate Second Novel List. She also received an arts writers grant from Creative Capital/ the Warhol Foundation and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. She lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York.

About I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems:

Eileen Myles’ work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers to astonishing new
considerations of familiar places, like the East Village in her iconic Chelsea Girls, and invites them into lush—and sometimes horrid—dream worlds, imbuing the landscapes of her writing with the vividness and energy of fantasy.

I Must Be Living Twice brings together selections from the poet’s previous work with a set of bold new poems that reflect her sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice. Steeped in the culture of New York City, Myles’ milieu, I Must Be Living Twice is a prism refracting a radical world and a compelling life.

About Chelsea Girls:

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles’ 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed “lesbianity,” and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.

Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist’s life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer’s education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.

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A few forthcoming titles . . .

The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
ed. Lawlor and Pilling,
forthcoming from Grove Press, November 2014

Mayakovsky: A Biography
Bendt Jangfeldt
forthcoming from U. Chicago, January 2015

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: 
The Story of Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman
forthcoming from Verso,  Novemer 2014

David Rees & Heather Fuller @ Bridge Street 5/9, 8 PM

WEDNESDAY MAY 9th at 8:00 PM


THE EDGE READING SERIES

at Bridge Street Books presents


DAVID REES

&

HEATHER FULLER


Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener (and author of Get Your War On)—still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. In 2010, he began offering his artisanal service to the world, to the jubilation of artists, writers, draftsmen, and standardized test takers.

Now, in a book that is both a manifesto and a fully-illustrated walk-through of the many, many, many ways to sharpen a pencil, Rees reveals the secrets of his craft. By the time you’re through this book, you will know how to get the perfect point on your pencil without injuring yourself.

DAVID REES first came to fame as the author of Get Your War On, a Bush-era comic strip composed from clip-art that he emailed to friends. It was eventually serialized by Rolling Stone magazine, collected into three successful books, and turned into an off-Broadway play. He is also the author of the workplace satire My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable. He lives in Beacon, New York.

HEATHER FULLER grew up in Keflavik, Iceland; Dale City, Virginia; and Henderson, North Carolina. She now resides in Baltimore, Maryland, just outside D.C. She worked in the DC area with non-profits on homelessness and poverty issues for many years and now practices veterinary medicine in Baltimore, MD. She is the author of Startle Response, Dovecote, and perhaps this is a rescue fantasy.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel, five
blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Tuesday, May 8, 8:00PM

Barrett Watten & Ryan Walker

@ Bridge Street Books


Friday, May 11, 7:00PM

Rob Halpern, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brandon Fitzgerald, & Fitz Fitzgerald

@ Black Fox Lounge : 1723 Connecticut Avenue NW


Sunday May 20, 3:00 PM

Jordan Davis, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong, & Tony Mancus

@ DCAC

Watten & Walker @ Bridge Street Tues 5/8, 8 PM

Please join us
TUESDAY MAY 8th at 8:00 PM

THE EDGE READING SERIES
at Bridge Street Books presents

BARRETT WATTEN
&
RYAN WALKER

BARRETT WATTEN is a language-centered poet and critic of modernist and postmodern cultures. His study The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Wesleyan, 2003), received the René Wellek Prize in 2004. His collected earlier poems, Frame: 1971-1990, appeared from Sun & Moon in 1997; Bad History from Atelos in 1998; and Progress/Under Erasure from Green Integer in
2004. He has collaborated on two multi–authored works: Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (Mercury House, 1992) and The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-80. He is currently Professor of modernist studies and poetics at Wayne State University, Detroit.

RYAN WALKER grew up in Arnold, MD before moving to Colorado for grad school. In 1999 he moved to Washington, DC, where he remains. He is the author of Enjoy Potion, You Will Own It Permanently, and web impressario at dcpoetry.com.

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
ph 202 965 5200

Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown, next to the Four Seasons Hotel,
five blocks from the
Foggy Bottom Metro, blue & orange lines.

UPCOMING READINGS:

Wednesday, May 9, 8:00PM
David Rees & Heather Fuller
@ Bridge Street Books

Friday, May 11, 7:00PM
Rob Halpern, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brandon Fitzgerald, and Fitz Fitzgerald
@ Black Fox Lounge : 1723 Connecticut Avenue NW

Sunday May 20, 3:00 PM,
Jordan Davis, Steven Karl, Angela Veronica Wong, & Tony Mancus
@ DCAC

Studying Hunger Journals

Studying Hunger Journals

Bernadette Mayer

Station Hill Press, 460 pgs, $24.95


In 1972 Bernadette Mayer began this project as an aid to psychological counseling, writing in parallel journals so that, as she wrote in one (in bed, on subways, at parties, etc.), her psychiatrist read the other. Using colored pens to “color-code emotions,” she recorded dreams, events, memories, and reflections in a language at once free-ranging and precise—a work that creates its own poetics. She sought “a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition” of her own mind and to “perform this process of translation” on herself in the interest of evolving an innovative, inquiring language. Studying Hunger Journals registers this intention within a body of poetry John Ashbery has called “magnificent.”

Made public at last in its gorgeous various and unstinting entirety, Studying Hunger Journals reveals itself to be one of the great in fact epic works of a movement that could never be given a name. No label fit for such limitless activity, its terms being those of our restless language and its relentless go-betweens that move and may alter. Attend therefore and let them have their way, these words given without let and best received in kind.
—Clark Coolidge

Alice Notley, Culture of One

Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one."

Penguin Books, 160 pgs, $18

New in Poetry & Theory

ATTACK OF THE DIFFICULT POEMS: Essays and Interventions, Charles Bernstein, U. Chicago, 282 pgs, $26. Includes "Against National Poetry Month As Such," "Anything Goes," "Poetry and/or the Sacred," "Electronic Pies in the Poetry Skies," "Is Art Criticism Fifty Years Behind Poetry?" and many others.

EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING: Poems & Comics, Sommer Browning, Birds LLC, 98 pgs, $16. "Never believe the concierge."

THE MERIDIAN: Final Version--Drafts--Materials, Paul Celan, trans Pierre Joris, Stanford, 286 pgs, $24.95. "Hostility to art--:... / There is no synthetic poetry--"

CHOMP AWAY, Drew Gardner, Combo, 100 pgs, $13.95. "Doublespeak is probably the best thing you can/ syringe-feed an anorexic bunny."

AGAINST EXPRESSION: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, ed Craig Dworkin & Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 656 pgs, $45. "Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing."

THE SOURCE, Noah Eli Gordon, Futurepoem, 126 pgs, $16. "Every time I go out in the street, I immediately start falling in love."

THE WIDE ROAD, Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian,141 pgs, Belladonna, $16. "The reader is lovable."

THAT THIS, Susan Howe, New Directions, 110 pgs, $15.95. "If you die in your sleep do you know you are dead?"

THE MATTER OF CAPITAL: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, Christopher Nealon, Harvard, cloth 198 pgs, $35. Authors examined include Auden, Pound, Ashbery, Spicer, K. Davies, & Rankine.

NEW IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA, Raymond Roussel, trans Mark Ford, Princeton, cloth 256 pgs, $24.95.
"_To read_ often equals _to be tricked_"

A MEGAPHONE: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness
of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism, ed Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, ChainLinks, 403 pgs, $27.95.

MALFEASANCE: Appropriation through Pollution?, Michel Serres, Stanford, 90 pgs, $15.95.

APPLIES TO ORANGES, Maureen Thorson, Ugly Duckling, 60 pgs. $13. ""Sling my hammock where?"


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