“Ruthlessly unguarded, surgically self-parodic and infinitely funny, Myles’s poems chop lines into uncanny units and place our lexicons under an X-ray, turning the familiar into the unfamiliar. Myles evokes the absurd grace of mundane life—coffee, dog, toilet, ex-lover, refrigerator, T-shirt, cat, books, therapy, toaster—but among these quotidian objects and companions, there’s always a spark of surprise, as the sharp philosophical lines stop us in our tracks . . . An indispensable book about friendship and intimacy; I alternately laughed and shivered as I turned the pages.”—Kit Fan, The Guardian

“a ‘Working Life’ takes you where Myles feels like, for however long they feel like it, and in whichever direction. This is harder than it looks. The ease of Myles’s lines—the way words break in two to calibrate rhythm and speed, or how the number of words per line expand and single out to play around with tension—belie great skill. But the difference between poets isn’t just style; it’s personality, or one’s outlook on life. Myles’s is one of the most distinctive, and insightful.”—Vulture