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I Have To Go Back To 1994 And Kill A Girl: Poems (2009)

by Karyna McGlynn(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1932511768 (ISBN13: 9781932511765)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Sarabande Books

review 1: This is not a noir murder mystery. This is a book about the peculiar loathing of and desire to murder the childhood self. The narrative reality and chronological progression is fractured--the poems surface in just the same way that thoughts and memories do, in an unpredictable associative progression. Childhood, puberty, sexual violence, fake wood-paneled rec rooms, slumber parties, panties, dead horses. This book activated all kinds of mewling childhood memories. Will have to re-read and re-read and re-read.
review 2: As Lynn Emanuel says in her introduction, "To be a reader of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is to be a time traveler." Karyna McGlynn's collection of poetry tells a story -- but not in a traditional sense of clear beginnings and absol... moreute endings. Instead, her book leaves the reader with a clear picture of the crime, yet surreal, almost fuzzy images of the victims and the criminals. I have to admit that I have read the book twice, and I still don't have all the answers to the questions that McGlynn's poems ask. But that's okay. Poems such as "I Show Up Twelve Years Late for Curfew" left me so chilled I couldn't get warm. Yet, I find myself coming back for more. less

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