Digital List Price:	$9.99
Kindle Price:	$9.49 Save $0.50 (5%)
Sold by:	Amazon.com Services LLC

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Inferno: A Poet's Novel by [Eileen Myles]

Follow the Author

Eileen Myles

Inferno: A Poet's Novel Kindle Edition

by Eileen Myles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.3 75 ratings

See all formats and editions

“Eileen Myles debates her own self identity in a gruffly beautiful, sure voice of reason. Is she a ‘hunk’? A ‘dyke’? A ‘female’? I’ll tell you what she is––damn smart! Inferno burns with humor, lust and a healthy dose of neurotic happiness.” — John Waters

From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”—poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Their story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.

Print length

180 pages
Language

English
Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe
Publication date

November 29, 2010
File size

440 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Eileen Myles
21
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $11.65
Eileen Myles
11
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $17.50
Eileen Myles
254
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $13.99
Eileen Myles
40
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $4.79
Eileen Myles
1
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $12.99
Antonia Angress
311
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $12.99

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 and soon began reading her poems publicly, taking workshops at St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York’s East Village and publishing in little magazines, zines and larger journals such as Partisan Review and Paris Review. Her books of poems include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. With Liz Kotz, she co-edited the notorious The New Fuck You/adventures in lesbian reading, responding to the short-lived gay and lesbian publishing boom in the ’90s. Her first fiction was Chelsea Girls (1994), followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. She directed the writing program at the University of California at San Diego for five years, returning to New York in 2007.

In San Diego she wrote the libretto for the opera Hell (composed by Michael Webster), performed in 2004-06. During that time she also wrote much of Inferno. For the last three decades she’s been writing reviews, articles, essays and blogs, most recently in Art Forum, Parkett, Vice, AnOther Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail. Her essays were collected in The Importance of Being Iceland (2009). In 2010, the Poetry Society of American awarded Myles the Shelley Memorial Award. The same year, she was the Hugo Writer at the University of Montana at Missoula. She lives in New York.
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004J4X82U
Publisher ‏ : ‎ OR Books (November 29, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 29, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 440 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 180 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,175,816 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,218 in Women's Literary Fiction
- #10,057 in Contemporary Literary Fiction
- #21,881 in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Customer Reviews:
4.3 75 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Eileen Myles

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5

75 global ratings

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Aditi Rao

It is a poet's novel: sometimes boring, and a little too metaphorical

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2014

Verified Purchase

Inferno would make a great audiobook, it’s a book you can read for short periods of time without loosing your attention, making it truly a poet’s novel. They content itself is wonderful, and you are pulled into Myles world of the New York punk scene, it makes you nostalgic and for yearnful for such a time, but the writing style is not the most enthralling. It’s not the kind of book you could sit down for a long chunk of time and read, but if you are the person who can get behind the writing style, it is well worth it.

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

Gretel Carlson

poetic style is great for the first 50 pages

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2015

Verified Purchase

If Hannah Horvath were a lesbian in the 1970's, she would have written this.

I am less than a fan. The stream of consciousness, poetic style is great for the first 50 pages, but gets really old fast for me. I enjoyed most of the book, but really found it to be a chore to read by the end.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

Astroems

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2017

Verified Purchase

Fun, quick read. Meandering stories about the protagonist's life and her sexual awakening.

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2015

Verified Purchase

I only read her and Buk, I mean who else is there. Fantastic.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2013

Verified Purchase

This book was, for lack of better terms, poetically written. It makes sense that its titled a poets novel, haha.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

maureen lemiere

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2016

Verified Purchase

Given as gift

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Kindle Customer

One Star

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2015

Verified Purchase

Hard to follow. Honestly couldn't get through it.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Jennifer L Gori

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016

Verified Purchase

Great book.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Brie-Anne Tondreau

I can't read on a screen so this is a complete waste of money for me and I can't find any ...

Reviewed in Canada on July 24, 2017

Verified Purchase

I bought it thinking it was the audiobook. I can't read on a screen so this is a complete waste of money for me and I can't find any contact information to help.

Buy for others

Buying and sending eBooks to others

Follow the Author

Inferno: A Poet's Novel Kindle Edition

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Product details

Videos

About the author

Eileen Myles

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries