![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s in these sections that the memoir delivers its poignant, sweeping crescendo, a contemplation of grief. In a late section, Myles invents and assumes a persona, Bo Jean Harmonica, to explore her alcoholism and the AA meetings where she “learned to speak” and to “choose-listen.” And finally, Myles allows her pooch to narrate the last chapters, in which Rosie writes to the poet from the afterlife. The Chelsea Girls author even contends, half jokingly, that Rosie is the reincarnation of her father, who fell from a roof and died shortly after, when she was 11. Rosie, Myles observes, was the “mainstay of my liturgy for sixteen point five almost seventeen years. Transcribed video recordings of their strolls in San Diego are intercut with recollections and imagined scenes. Part elegy, part meditation, part performance art, the 2012 Guggenheim Fellow’s 21st book reflects on her beloved pit bull, Rosie, who died in 2006. To read Eileen Myles is to feel as if the poet, after spotting you across the room at a crowded party, has guided you by the elbow to a private corner to confide her personal theories of the universe.Īfterglow is just that intimate. ![]()
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