A Working Life

“The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, ‘A Working Life’ … captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in a relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics always engage with permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder. ‘A Working Life’ is a book transfixed by the everyday: the ‘sweet accumulation’ of birds outside a window, a cup of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover’s foot on the bed. These poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, or simply in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog in all the places that held us during the pandemic lockdowns”–Publisher marketing.