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. -Publisher