# The Importance of Being Iceland

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- Book: [The Importance of Being Iceland](https://www.bookquiver.com/eileen-myles/the-importance-of-being-iceland) ([The Importance of Being Iceland.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eileen-myles/the-importance-of-being-iceland.md))
- Authors: [Eileen Myles](https://www.bookquiver.com/eileen-myles)
- Publisher: semiotext_e
- ISBN: 978-15-8435-066-8
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2009-06-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape CodPoet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles...