num_pages: 200
description: In a departure from earlier work, Eileen Myles’ Skies is a book of pared-down, cloud-like poems, wisp-like on the page yet as intensely colored as a sunset. Although their work conjures the texture of wind and the broad spaces of the sky, these poems are not serenely pastoral. Rather, Myles’ sparse blank verse is concerned with the diaphanous qualities of perception, as if her momentary experiences were as slippery and translucent as clouds. A sometimes brutal loneliness and urgent but stoic sensuality results, finding its expression in simple orange, grey, yellow, white, rose.
language: English
title: Skies: Poems by Eileen Myles
titlecomplete: Skies: Poems by Eileen Myles
genres: Queer, Poetry
ratings_count: 154
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Poetry, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
publisher: Black Sparrow Press