Early Love for Eileen Myles New Collection

Although it doesn't properly release until April, we're all excited about Eileen Myles new double-book Snowflake / different streets, including Saehee Cho, who wrote an early review of it for HTMLGIANT.

Cho begins:

Eileen Myles’ poetry actively, consciously pursues the tangential thought. In her new dual collection of poems, Snowflake and Different Streets, the text glides into the tangent like she has no sense of return, like she’s just floating.

There is confidence behind the lack of linearity and I follow it happily because the text seems to already know that the tangential thought might just be the more exciting thought or as Eileen Myles might say, “the peach of it.”

Then, on the books dual form:

Snowflake and Different Streets is designed so that one side of the book presents one collection and then flipping the book, the reader is presented with a second collection. The form invites contrast, or at least comparison, but the degrees of difference feel slight—more like a sway rather than a change of course. Different Streets is noted as newer poems on the title page but even this is later amended in the notes as not completely true. There’s a lot of pleasure to be found in giving up on the burden of form or reading into the separation of the two collections–the feeling of flipping the book backwards and forwards, opening up a page to find the text running backwards.

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