Cool for You.Eileen Myles is a poet and she knows it, and now you can, too. What she has written in Cool for You (Soft Skull, 2000) is prose--a straight-ahead story about a working class Irish American girl in horrible schools and creepy jobs, who wants to busta move out of her home and history. The first-person point of view, which usually makes me want to shoot myself, is so vivid, dissociated dis·so·ci·ate v. dis·so·ci·at·ed, dis·so·ci·at·ing, dis·so·ci·ates v.tr. 1. To remove from association; separate: , self-aware, and flat-out poetic in its description of day-to-day survival and transcendence that it verges on claustrophobic in its realization of setting, character, and plot. In some places, I had to force myself to look up and away from the words and gasp for air. The style is experimental without being annoying and without any condescension con·de·scen·sion n. 1. The act of condescending or an instance of it. 2. Patronizingly superior behavior or attitude. [Late Latin cond . Ms. Myles makes real the tough-girl narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. who muses on ambition and sexuality, grief and delight, with equal candor and grace. Kate Clinton is a humorist hu·mor·ist n. 1. A person with a good sense of humor. 2. A performer or writer of humorous material. humorist Noun a person who speaks or writes in a humorous way . |
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