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I have a hard time respecting other poets because they’re all in bed with Orpheus and Eurydice.

Plus, they’re all full of facts about trains and lobsters and the antebellum South and stuff, and they love to share them!

They are very sluttish with their facts, whereas I am very selfish. People always accuse me of stating my opinions as if they’re facts,

but at least I don’t share trivial nuggets about goats and powder-wigs as if I invented them!

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POETRY:

Karyna McGlynn

Karyna McGlynn

Karyna McGlynn’s first book, I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, won the 2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2009. She’s published several chapbooks, including Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007) and Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008).

Anti- Thesis:

“People always tell me that I must eventually wrestle with Walt Whitman. But I worry Whitman wouldn’t enjoy that very much. I’m not a healthy lad shimmying from his tight trousers down by the creek. This is something I’m coming to grips with late at night, when my browser crashes.”

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POETRY:

Karyna McGlynn

Anti- Thesis:

Karyna McGlynn

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