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The Importance of Being Iceland

- Travel Essays in Art
Af: Eileen Myles Engelsk Paperback

The Importance of Being Iceland

- Travel Essays in Art
Af: Eileen Myles Engelsk Paperback
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A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau''s footsteps on Cape Cod

Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire''s gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet''s eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds. Framed by Myles''s account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau''s Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan''s Sonnets, and flossing.

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A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau''s footsteps on Cape Cod

Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire''s gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet''s eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds. Framed by Myles''s account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau''s Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan''s Sonnets, and flossing.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781584350668
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1584350660
Kategori: Litterære essays
Udg. Dato: 5 jun 2009
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 227mm
Forlag: Autonomedia
Oplagsdato: 5 jun 2009
Forfatter(e): Eileen Myles
Forfatter(e) Eileen Myles

Kategori Litterære essays

ISBN-13 9781584350668

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 227mm

Udg. Dato 5 jun 2009

Oplagsdato 5 jun 2009

Forlag Autonomedia

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