bAn utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word pathetic bpLiterature is pathetic. So claims Eileen Myles in their bold and bracing introduction to iPathetic Literaturei, an exuberant collection of pieces ranging from poetry to theater to prose to something in between, all of which explore those so-called pathetic or sensitive feelings around which lives are built and revolutions are incited.pMyles first reclaimed the word for a seminar they taught at the University of California San Diego, rescuing it from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling, from the Ancient Greek rhetorical method ipathosi. Their reinvention of pathetic formed the bedrock for this anthology, which in