"These are poems with teeth and tenderness and so much knowledge. You'd overlook their sharp, glinting beauty at your peril."--Kathryn Nuernberger, author of
The Witch of Eye and
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This is a book of tragicomic gurlesque word-witchery inspired by the Kate Bush cosmos. Campily glamorous, darkly funny, obsessively ekphrastic, boozily baroque, psychedelically girly & musically ecstatic, 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse dazzles as Karyna McGlynn's third collection.
About the AuthorKaryna McGlynn is a writer, professor & collagist living in Memphis. She is the author of
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl (Sarabande 2009) and
Hothouse (Sarabande 2017), which was a
New York Times Editor's Choice. Karyna holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Creative Writing & English Literature from the University of Houston. Recent honors include the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, a visiting professorship at Oberlin College, the Rumi Prize for Poetry selected by Cate Marvin, and the
Florida Review Editors' Award in Fiction. With Erika Jo Brown, she's co-editing the anthology
Clever Girl: Witty Poetry by Women.