Eileen Myles

Poet and post-punk hero Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant "flaneur." Myles travels the city, seeing it with a poet's eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in "The Importance of Being Iceland" make a lush document of her--and our--lives in these contemporary crowds.