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The Inferno: A Poet's Novel (2009)

by Eileen Myles(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1593762119 (ISBN13: 9781593762117)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Soft Skull Press

review 1: very interesting. eloquent, clear. language that flinches from nothing. the narrative wanders; this is not a narrative-driven text, and it's not trying to be. it's exploring the idea of being a poet, a person, a woman, a lesbian, these things all together. it is very much what it says, a poet's novel. it's about poetry & poeting (and the processes of each), and it's also poetic -- the right margin isn't justified, and you can get into a rhythm of reading the whole thing as a poem, and it *works* like that. i re-read many passages, recognized, from the inside, many others.
review 2: Inferno (a Poet’s Novel), Eileen Myles, electronicThis “novel” had all the pitfalls of Patti Smith’s memoir of a year or two ago: name dropping, an inert narrative line,... more self-absorption. I did not find the artistic musing and questioning engaging, though bits of the scene portraits (like, St. Mark’s in the Bowery, down the street from my father’s E. Tenth St apt) were intrinsically interesting. less

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