
That’s Right: A discussion of Eileen Myles’s “Writing” and “Mount St. Helens”
Poem Talk
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The Band-Aid
The poem is linked to something almost religious in its power. And then she invokes this teeny piece of Band-Aid. Instead of coming up with the second thing, she repeats the existence of the Band- Aid. Any two things turns into one thing said twice. So suddenly we're in the thingliness of the thing realm. Then she totally loses her nerve and runs to the bathroom. Am I on the same pit? Am I Philip Astrre now? You are. It's not God but that's right.
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