{"product_id":"9780300261417","title":"For Now by Eileen Myles","description":"In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work ?\"A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait.\"-Kirkus Reviews ?\"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.\"-National Public Radio ?\"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 ? 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.    ? 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311681581429,"sku":"9780300261417","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300261417.jpg?v=1762818875","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780300261417","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}