Hothouse - McGlynn, Karyna

Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande Books 2009), and three chapbooks. Her poems have recently appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Witness, and The Academy of American Poet's Poem-A-Day. McGlynn's honors include the Hopwood Award, the Verlaine Prize, and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. She received her PhD from the University of Houston, where she was the Managing Editor of Gulf Coast. She is currently the Diane Middlebrook Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin where she serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Devil's Lake.

Table of Contents

Hothouse

Bedroom

I Can't Stop Being Performative
When Someone Says I Love You
Broken Bottle of Vanilla Fields
Big Game Trophy Return Fantasy
California King
Square Rooms
In the Future No One Gets to Cry


Library

Russel Says Everybody is Aubrey
Our Books, Our Books
Caretaker
Sensual Vocabulary
Ars Poetica in a Boat (with You)
Self-Portrait as Erotic Thriller
Seventies Couch


Parlor

Last Girl on the Floor
Costumes Required
You Are My New God
Swing Dancers Named Michael
Self-Portrait as Aging Starlet
The Devil Chains Me to the Microphone



Wet Bar

Waiting for Greg O.
What Happens in 1918 Won't Stay in 1918
This is a Screwdriver, She Says
Lottery of Bad Apologies
It is Easier
Love in the Age of Bar Paraphernalia
Somebody Gets Shot at the RV Park
Drunk Workshop
The New Sincerity


Bath

Rented Confessional
Bomb Threat
Ouvrir
Milk Bath
First Aid Kit
Blue-Eyed Boyfriends
Eyebrows


Basement

Rich Girl Camp Revenge Fantasy
Fortune is a Woman in Furs at the Food Bank
Elegiac Stanzas (With Rhinestones)
Of all the Dead People I Know
Mortification Montage
Tennessee Wedding on VHS
Hit It
The Afterlife of My Lost Blazers

Acknowledgments