In May, I was listening to Lit Up and heard two different people talk - in an aside, of all things - about how they loved Eileen Myles (who I'd never heard of...but then I realized that was because she's a poet and that's why I hadn't heard of her: my own ignorance of poetry). Within the week, I'd discovered she was coming to this year's PalFest, and at PalFest, heard her read an apology letter/poem to Palestinians for Donald Trump, then bought this book, which is a collection of poems originally published in different volumes. It was a great intro/overview of her writing career. The poems are dry and witty - often laugh-out-loud funny - and also poignant. There's a lot of New York, a fair bit of drinking/smoking/drugs, both punctuated by the ebb and flow of love. Myles also grapples with many issues particular to LGTBQ+ relationships, and because this book collects poems from many of her other books over time, we see her age through those issues, which, for me, was quite instructive, both because I'm trying to think through what challenges face LGBTQ+ couples that I don't face, and because some challenges face all couples, period. Definitely recommended.