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Pencil Poems
by Eileen Myles

Poetry
Handset metal type printed letterpress, handsewn into two separate versions, both with handmade papers from St. Armand mill in Montreal. 
$16

 

Pencil Poems

Pencil Poems was printed in two colors (black & yellow). 150 copies total. Signed on the title page by the author, also with hand drawn color image by Cynthia Miller on title page (three lines in colored pencil, inspired by these "pencil poems").

These are sharp poems about living today (or any time) in one's body, physical and political, written in that most immediate and fragile of media, the pencil. Here is a sample:


5

Half asleep; generous

clatter of straws

a cup into a plastic bag.

Eyelids flutter

gulp of decent coffee

and back to nod

it's a strange gig

this body I'm riding

for 59 years.



 

 

 

 

 

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