Praise for Afterglow (a dog memoir) "A ravishingly strange and gorgeous book about a dog that's really about life and everything there is, Eileen Myles's Afterglow is a truly astonishing creation." --Helen Macdonald, author of the New York Times bestseller H Is for Hawk "What is a dog if not god? In Afterglow, Eileen Myles steps up to the challenge for writers to function as prophets. Ghostwritten in part by deceased pit bull Rosie, this 'dog memoir' explores--among other things--geometry, gender, mortality, evil, aging, and plaids. Myles makes new rules for what prose writing can be. Afterglow is Myles's funniest, profoundest work yet." --Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick "Everything Eileen Myles touches turns to poetry. Whether called a dog or a cat, it's always poetry. Emily Dickinson famously decided that poetry was anything that made her 'feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off.' I can imagine Emily Dickinson writing an ecstatic blurb for Myles's tender, trippy, deep, yet humanely silly new gift to the world: Afterglow. In this age of fake news and even fake poetry, trust this voice!" --Brad Gooch, author of Smash Cut "Wildly inventive and just plain wild, feral, even, Eileen Myles's dazzling Afterglow is about a dog, and her owner, and everything else in life, and also death, too." --Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up Praise for Eileen Myles "Kinetic, ecstatic, muscular, hilarious, sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary and timeless." --Maggie Nelson "[The work] has a yearning quality and a sweetness that prevent it from being a mere time capsule or Henry Miller-like debauch . . . You find yourself caring about where this writer has come from, and where [they're] going." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Myles is often referred to as an 'institution'--the way one speaks of a terrific restaurant that's endured the waves of gentrification as a 'New York institution.' But the word bounces off . . . there is nothing official about [Myles], nothing staid or still." --Ben Lerner, Paris Review "A kick-ass counter-cultural icon." --New Yorker "Part of Myles's enduring appeal is that [the work is] experimental in the true sense of the word; every time you turn around, [Myles is] up to something different." --New York Magazine "Myles forces a cultural and a literary reckoning . . . demanding understanding, the text held to the reader's throat." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Characteristically beguiling . . . [Myles] lulls the reader into a feeling of intimacy, of being confided in . . . [and is] always artful." --Bookforum "[The] work is hard to describe, best encountered on its own terms; suffice to say it combines frankness and beauty in a truly original way." --Guardian (UK) Praise for Eileen Myles "Kinetic, ecstatic, muscular, hilarious, sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary and timeless." --Maggie Nelson "Myles is often referred to as an 'institution'--the way one speaks of a terrific restaurant that's endured the waves of gentrification as a 'New York institution.' But the word bounces off her: there is nothing official about her, nothing staid or still. She is exemplary for more and more young writers precisely because she has gone her own way." --Ben Lerner, Paris Review "[The work] has a yearning quality and a sweetness that prevent it from being a mere time capsule or Henry Miller-like debauch . . . You find yourself caring about where this writer has come from, and where she's going." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Part of Myles's enduring appeal is that she's experimental in the true sense of the word; every time you turn around, she's up to something different . . . People have started using the word legend when talking about her life and work." --New York Magazine "Myles forces a cultural and a literary reckoning with her life on her own terms, demanding understanding, the text held to the reader's throat." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Characteristically beguiling . . . [Myles] lulls the reader into a feeling of intimacy, of being confided in . . . [and] she's always artful." --Bookforum "Her work is hard to describe, best encountered on its own terms; suffice to say it combines frankness and beauty in a truly original way." --Guardian (UK) Praise for Eileen Myles "Kinetic, ecstatic, muscular, hilarious, sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary and timeless." --Maggie Nelson "Myles is often referred to as an 'institution'--the way one speaks of a terrific restaurant that's endured the waves of gentrification as a 'New York institution.' But the word bounces off her: there is nothing official about her, nothing staid or still. She is exemplary for more and more young writers precisely because she has gone her own way." --Ben Lerner, Paris Review "[The work] has a yearning quality and a sweetness that prevent it from being a mere time capsule or Henry Miller-like debauch . . . You find yourself caring about where this writer has come from, and where she's going." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Part of Myles's enduring appeal is that she's experimental in the true sense of the word; every time you turn around, she's up to something different . . . People have started using the word legend when talking about her life and work." --New York Magazine "Myles forces a cultural and a literary reckoning with her life on her own terms, demanding understanding, the text held to the reader's throat." --Los Angeles Review of Books "Characteristically beguiling . . . [Myles] lulls the reader into a feeling of intimacy, of being confided in . . . [and] she's always artful." --Bookforum "Her work is hard to describe, best encountered on its own terms; suffice to say it combines frankness and beauty in a truly original way." --Guardian (UK)

Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Chelsea Girls and, most recently I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1975-2014. Myles's many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Art Writers' Grant, a Lambda Book Award, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing, and the Shelley Prize from The Poetry Society of America. Myles teaches at NYU and Naropa University and lives in Marfa, TX and New York City.