{"product_id":"for-now","title":"For Now","description":"In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait.\"--Kirkus Reviews \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.\"--National Public Radio \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is signature Myles: the unconventional syntax, the jazzy rhythms, the total commitment to writing in the heat of the moment, not edited or modulated by concessions to linear rationality.\"--Phil Gambone, Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For Myles, time's \"optic quality\" is what enables writing in the first place--as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57787266695494,"sku":"9780300261417","price":12.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/7c5fb76338bca2dedbe077d176b90ab95e413b750cdd317a767b070ada77a76f.jpg?v=1793844358","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/for-now","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}