I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl

"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 nar [...]
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"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 EmanuelKaryna McGlynn lives in Austin, Texas.