5/26/2023 0 Comments Afterglow by Eileen Myles![]() ![]() Through this lens, we examine Myles's experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we invent to get to the heart of grief. ![]() Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow (a dog memoir) launches a probing investigation into the dynamics between pet and pet-owner. Over the course of sixteen years together, Myles was devoted to the dog's wellbeing. In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly began to make an indelible impact on the writer's sense of self and work. ![]() This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie. ![]() Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" ( New York Review of Books). ![]()
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