A poet and postpunk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bjrk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreaus footsteps on Cape CodPoet and postpunk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaires gentleman stroller, Myles travels the citywandering on garbagestrewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spitseeing it with a poets eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of herand ourlives in these contemporary crowds. Framed by Myless account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreaus Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Bjrk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson howtos on writing an avantgarde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel DayLewis, Ted Berrigans Sonnets, and flossing.

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Autonomedia; Classification: DNF; Weight: 686 g; Dimensions: 227 x 152 x 27

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