Eileen Myles

The Inferno: A Poet's Novel (2009)

I was hoping for a mashup of Jeanette Winterson and Patti Smith but instead I found Henry Miller with a partial lobotomy. Inferno is an excruciating read. I plodded through it just to prove to myself that I didn't dislike it simply because it's difficult. No, it's just bad, and boring. I wish som...