Eileen Myles is a New York poet, maybe the New York poet, a swaggering troubadour of casually roving brilliance. But mostly Afterglow is about Rosie, the black and white pit bull bitch who was Myles’s long-serving companion. Myles first realised that “dog was god” when Rosie was dying in San Diego. Here it was at last: love as attendance, love not as self-abnegation but giving yourself up to care. Myles has a way of moving very freely and speculatively around a subject, a few cold facts at the core.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2018 12:00 UTC