The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)
By Eileen Myles.
Description
Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city--wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit--seeing it with a poet's eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social ges...
ISBN(s)
1584350660, 9781584350668
