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meganmilks's review against another edition
5.0
this collection of essays, interviews, and blog posts joins acker's bodies of work and delany's about writing, as well as all of the Narrativity essays, this group of texts i'll return to again and again, they erupt with inspiration. blah. this book has a halo. the past month of waking up with coffee and fruit and a few pages from The Importance of Being Iceland has given me great joy. i find my mouth forming religious words whenever i speak of this book. overstatement but really eileen myles has with this collection brought me back to writing more than anything, well, since i read the aforementioned triumvirate of books.
mkat303's review against another edition
3.0
A variety of essays, some on travel, some on art, interviews with artists...many republished from magazines, it seemed. I enjoyed many of them, including in particular the ones on Iceland and Alan Ginsberg. I didn't read them all. Sometimes her writing style got on my nerves.
yourcoldclay's review
3.0
some really brilliant essays in here, but also at least two where she talks about how cute allen ginsberg is for being into young boys
whitehousedotcom's review
5.0
"There's a place of many operations occurring in language, sometimes it's about stepping out of the machine, flying overhead. Sometimes it's about lying down and playing possum. There's no single way to catch the existence of words. Except that language is some kind of living myth we made up and somebody one at a time has to show us that." 196
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