Hell - A Poet's Novel

The first time I stood in the woods, I changed myself. I took off my shirt and became nobody; nameless, genderless, just a creature wandering around a field with a dog. Art brought this to me.

Poet and writer Eileen Myles's book, which begins with the words, "My English teacher had such a nice ass," and ends with the words, "You can really learn to be refined. And that's heaven," is a striking work that will long be remembered by its readers. The autobiographical novel tells the story of a young female writer discovering her sexuality and her creative power in the bohemian milieu of New York during the golden age of punk.

As another American female poet, Rae Armantrout, says, “It carries the tone of a fugue in which life and poetry merge, and shame and glory are integrated,” Inferno shows us where a poet can come from and in doing so creates a perfect example of how poetry and the novel can be kneaded.

(From the Promotion Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Number of Pages : 288

Dimensions : 12.5 x 19.5

First Printing Year : 2018

Number of Printings : 1st Edition