Eileen Myles - Broken Cindy / Zniszczona Cindy

Publisher: Girls and Queers to the Front

Eileen Myles’s Broken Cindy is a poem about the destroyed self-portrait of Cindy Sherman – a work of art losing value understood in terms of late capitalism. At the same time, the poem takes Sherman’s work as inspiration and a starting point for thinking about what it means to have a queer body in a heteronormative reality.

Myles’s poem is published by Warsaw-based collective Girls and Queers to the Front. In this bilingual publication (English + Polish), the poem is accompanied by an essay “Queer Bodies, Transatlantic Lineages: Reading Eileen Myles in Poland,” written by Aleksandra Kamińska and Maria Halber. Broken Cindy was commissioned by the Salvage Art Institute, founded by artist, poet, and translator Elka Krajewska.

46 pages
Paperback
17.6 x 12.5 cm
2024