The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays on Art, by Eileen Myles is really a delicious, elegant treat. Like expensive dark chocolate covered mint leaves from France.The book itself is a gorgeous object, shiny green and blue with thick pages.
It's a collection of essays about a whole bunch of different things, but they all have Eileen's voice in common, and it's this wonderful thing that comes across, being a poet and being in the world. Being smart and unique and strong and basically happy.
I didn't read all the essays, or even all of some of the ones I started, but I enjoyed this book as my companion for the last week or so. It's interesting reading a collection of essays, you don't get sucked in like with one long work. You dip your feet in and let them soak a bit, wiggle your toes and then hop out.
"Puppetry is primary animation, the spirit is injected by those deft hands pulling it right, making it breathe. And we are puppets too. The show succeeds when we gasp and guffaw -- feeling silly and glad we came exactly here this afternoon, and that they made it for us."
-- Eileen Myles, from "Twitch" in Blogs: 2004-2006
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