Eileen Myles was born in Boston (1949) and moved to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets (poems, 2012) is the latest of her 18 books. Inferno (a poet’s novel) came out in 2010. For The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Eileen the Shelley Prize. She is a Prof. Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She’s a 2012 Guggenheim fellow. She lives in New York. Eileen Myles's new & selected poems I must be living twice is coming out with Ecco/Harper Collins in the fall. Photo by Alice O’Malley.

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By EILEEN MYLES

"I don't know if / I really considered / going but that / it was in the world / like I was"