Not Me
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Eileen Myles — lesbian, poet, polemicist, and ex-presidential candidate — writes the poetry of personal politics. She mixes the mundane preoccupations of daily life with inspired empowerment, to capture the tangential glare of our failing society. Grace in ruthlessness. “We all think we’re the best and the only one. That’s why I can’t sleep.”
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The remarkable story of a woman who falls in and out of spiritual enchantment with her son, the well-known American guru Andrew Cohen. A close and literate examination of the micro-politics of power, and at the range of family intimacy.
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Communiqués from the fray, from the sullied midst of botched human interaction. Astute roman-à-clef tales of the snobbish, the rarified, and the ridiculous. Rower offers up precise hyperrealist portraits of alienation in and out of our time and place. These are sublime satirical adventures, through the ’70s and ’80s, through Soho and LSD.
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The Cities of Everyday Life carries within it an argument to take the urban seriously. Globalisation, with its mixture of enforced commodification, spatial transformations and urban ruin, excavated the city from margins of academic and literary writing to a new public discourse that suddenly assumed the given-ness of urban space. As elites quarrelled over pollution and decay of public order, new fusions were taking place between the media and the fabric of urban life.
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