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.

"I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is a remarkable book. It is innovative, original, unprecedented, and, at the same time, its originality and innovation are predicated on a passionate, even obsessive relationship with the past." Lynn Emanuel

* McGlynn to keep up a very active personal Website as well as blog and online profile * McGlynn willing and eager to do an extensive author tour across Southwest, then up to the West Coast, Midwest, and NYC * Edgy, hip poems ideal for Fence Magazine / Believer / Octopus readers; will focus mailings for this audience * Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 * Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande database as well as many contacts as McGlynn provides * 2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, and libraries as well as many contacts as McGlynn provides * Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv, as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs. Author and tour info will be updated regularly on Sarabande Website and other online venues.

About the Author
McGlynn earned her BA from Seattle University and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the author of two chapbooks: Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007) and Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008). Her poems have appeared in Fence, Gulf Coast, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, CutBank and Ninth Letter. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Reviews
American Poet, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Rain Taxi, Boston Review, The Believer, The Constant Critic, Fence Magazine, Octopus Magazine, Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, Cutbank Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, NewPages.com, Another Chicago Magazine



Book Information
ISBN 9781932511765
Author Karyna McGlynn
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publisher Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Weight(grams) 175g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 165mm * 7mm