![]() How does the way your family communicated inform your writing, your art? I read this Paris Review interview you did a few years ago: you said it took years for your mother to talk about you being in the room when your father died. Vanity Fair: I noticed that your mother’s death is a big part of the first narrative in the book. As we talk, Myles says they want people to find the accessibility of poetry: in life, in love, in Instagram, in everything. With the publication of their new book of poetry, Evolution, Myles explores, among other things, the loss of their mother, who died in April of last year this current political era past relationships and their new dog, Honey. But from Myles, who has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more in their career, it sounds like a charmingly quirky poem. The account of a lost tooth would sound mundane told by anyone else. They lost the last one while hanging out in the Provincetown ocean with friend (and former partner) Jill Soloway, which leaves them, as we talk, with a gap. ![]() ![]() When we meet at Cafe Mogador, one of those haunts, on a stuffy late-August Monday, Myles speaks candidly about their summer, which has included the loss of two partial dentures to replace a tooth that fell out earlier this year. The lanky poet, backpack strapped on, walks the New York streets with the confidence of someone who’s lived in the city’s East Village since 1977 and has their favorite spots all mapped out. ![]()
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