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Title: Inferno: A Poet's Novel

Author: Eileen Myles

Narrator: Eileen Myles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From its beginning - My English professors ass was so beautiful - to its end - You can actually learn to have grace. And thats heaven - poet, essayist, and performer Eileen Myles chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its listeners. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.

Editorial Reviews:

Dubbed "the rock star of modern poetry", Eileen Myles presents a deeply personal fictionalized memoir that mirrors Dantes Divine Comedy in overall structure but injects it - as evidenced by an eighty-plus page passage written as a grant application - with a dose of the avant-garde in its portrayal of a bohemian poet finding her artistic and sexual identity in fertile creative ground of the New York City underground from the '70s through the '90s.

Myless performance of her own work imbues it with a startling vulnerability and emotional resonance that is rare to find in an audiobook.

Members Reviews:

So major.

I loved listening to this. Totally stellar. Eileen Myles' writing it totally genius on the page, but then with her voice it's Nexf Level. Recommended

Funny and sometimes poignant, but erratic

It's clear that Myles shouldn't read her own work. As a performer she may have been moving in the 70s and 80s when she was discovering herself in the poetry scene of beatnik New York. But that voice loses its resonance in the 21st century and her experimental wandering novel becomes only a loose collection of sentences, most seemingly having little or nothing to do with the others. At times funny and even sharply profound, her memoir novel is otherwise only confusing, grotesque, and weirdly detached. Which may have been the point. A reflection on life as she sees it. But her delivery of that viewpoint is lacking in skill and subtlety. And her delivery as a voice narrator is both jarring and frustrating as she has no skill or smoothness. The editing is rough if it exists at all so the whole track sounds disjointed as though she often lost her place and had to stop for breath or to interpret a badly written word. Ultimately not a good listening experience.