In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity��s immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time.
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For Myles, time��s ��optic quality�� is what enables writing in the first place��as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful,?For Now?is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.