I have to go back to 1994 and kill a girl : poems

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

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of clues--frosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse's eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In otherworldly vignettes, 1994 pairs the unreliable na...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGlynn, Karyna
Other Authors: Emanuel, Lynn, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, c2009.
Subjects:
American poetry.
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Summary:I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of clues--frosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse's eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In otherworldly vignettes, 1994 pairs the unreliable narration of Jacob's Ladder (with its questions of identity and shifting realities) with the microscopic compulsiveness of Einstein's Dreams. The book's sense of hypnotic premeditation brings Donnie Darko to mind as well, as poem after poem scatters the breadcrumbs of a murder mystery leading us further away from the present self and deeper into the past. I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is an astounding debut collection that will crawl under your skin and stay there ... --Publisher description.
Physical Description:xxi, 74 p. ; 23 cm.
Awards:Winner of the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Lynn Emanuel.
ISBN:9781932511765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1932511768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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