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Title

I have to go back to 1994 and kill a girl : poems / by Karyna McGlynn.

Author

McGlynn, Karyna.

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, c2009.

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Details

Description

xxi, 74 p.; 23 cm.

Contents

Foreword / Lynn Emanuel -- "Ok, but you haven't seen the last of me" -- i. Planchette -- Before Anything Happened the House Had No Skeleton -- Not that I'm Neuter Exactly Said the Child in the Yard -- A Red Tricycle in the Belly of the Pool -- I Want to Introduce Myself, Not Quite Human -- Oh, You Really Don't Want to Go into the Library -- Where There Should Be a Plant Stand, There Isn't -- Amanda Hopper's House -- In a Landscape the Color of Bleached Limes -- His Cancer Had Calves Milked of Magnesium -- This Grand Conversation Was Under the Rose -- Sometime in the Night a Naked Man Passes -- The Poem with Its Teeth Caught in the Carpet -- God, I Got Down There to Get Off -- When I Came to There Was a Pearl and a Fish Hook -- It Wasn't Phenomenal, She Followed the Phone Poles Up & Up -- Lucifer Who Put This Moment in a Clear Block of Gelatin -- The Woman Who Stepped from the Black Lincoln -- Erin with the Feathered Hair -- Post 11th Birthday: He Leaves the Camera Rolling -- ii. Visitant -- The Thing in the Middle Which Has No Corner -- ... la Parc Darque But You Can Only Magnify It -- ... & the Southern Cross Slid Below the Belt -- Somebody Shook Me: Wake Up It's Raining Oil -- "Would You Like Me to Walk Your Baby?" -- At the Far End of the Room Buzzed with 40 Tiny Fans -- To Be Curled in the Snail Light of Your Heathen -- The Nursery with Half a Window Up Near the Ceiling -- They Shared Her on a Chicken White Sheet -- To Step Off the El's Chlamydeous Tongue -- The Amber Thawed, This Black Thing Scuttled Out -- Post-Nuptials: The Wedding Party Floated Away on an Iceberg -- iii. Revenant -- The Fox Had No Face the Loggermen Said -- Brown Study: A Girl Paces Beneath My Window -- A Girl Bellycrawls into My Room in Weeds -- A Door Left Open at the Place I Didn't Rent -- We Both Dyed with Feria Starlet, I Couldn't Dispossess a Girl -- I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl -- The Woods Are Calling but I Go to a Sleepover -- I Want to Tell Her I Won't Need Calculus, I Want to Warn Her -- I Show Up Twelve Years Late for Curfew -- I Found Pennies on My Skin, I Put Them There -- He Also Outside, a Cold Paisley -- Glass Backlog -- Square in the Gut of Lovemaking Lessons -- A Smoke Ring Lisps Under the Door -- I Invented the Paleolithic Circumstances Beneath This -- Postcoital Pippi.

ISBN

• 9781932511765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1932511768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2009000926
• 40017317256

OCLC

• 298613510
• ocn298613510

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries