{"id":9973,"date":"2013-01-20T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2013-01-20T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T09:15:16","slug":"eileen-myles-on-class-in-language-language-and-class-on-moolah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/01\/20\/eileen-myles-on-class-in-language-language-and-class-on-moolah\/","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Myles on class in language, language and class & on moolah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myles on moolah and more over at Full Stop<\/a>. Smart, incisive, and pragmatic.<\/p>\n

“I do think it\u2019s possible to make a living doing my writing but you have to be willing to live badly which I frequently do. There\u2019s lots of blogs to write for instance and oddly even if they \u201cpay\u201d you you have to wait longer than ever before. While everything\u2019s electronic pay checks are moving slower than ever before. You could blame the post office but I blame politics for that too. Increasingly though the belief is that you must be an academic or a publishing heavy if you are writing about books and you are obviously making your income elsewhere or else you are new or young or wealthy already and are just now climbing into prominence and need the \u201cexposure.\u201d So there\u2019s less respect than ever for the idea that a writer or even a aloud reader of her work needs to get paid. There\u2019s much shame about $ and that during an economic downturn. I find this trend to be deeply immoral. So the desire to make a living as a writer is a true perversion in this culture but I think we need our perverts more than ever.”<\/p>\n

Myles on class and language, class in language and more over at Trop<\/p>\n

Everything\u2019s about class in some way, in the same way that everything about sex is about class. Everything about language is about class. You\u2019re always giving a huge amount of information, and you\u2019re always speaking as a member of a certain group in a way. It\u2019s never without context. I\u2019m very aware of that. When I first started writing poetry\u2014especially because I was young and I had no idea who I was or who or what was speaking or who or what was making these poems\u2014I made up a bit of a character who was quite a lot like me and decided that they were writing my poems. I exteriorized some of the things that actually made up my own identity. And I thought of all of the different ways of speaking I heard when I was growing up and what I liked and didn\u2019t like. I\u2019ve always been obsessed with the sonorous qualities of speech and with what figures of speech can most appropriately be said in conversation as opposed to in a poem.<\/a><\/p>\n

and from the same Trop interview:<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a kind of anywhere-ness and an anyone-ness that\u2019s really exciting and important to me in language\u2014that language not be of a particular privileged class. All class is a privilege, even the lowliest have a vernacular that is all their own that they use to keep people in and keep people out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myles on moolah and more over at Full Stop. Smart, incisive, and pragmatic. “I do think it\u2019s possible to make a living doing my writing but you have to be willing to live badly which I frequently do. There\u2019s lots of blogs to write for instance and oddly even if they \u201cpay\u201d you you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-9973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-eileen-myles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}