Hothouse

Synopsis

Karyna Myglynn Takes Readers On Tour Through The Half-haunted House Of The Contemporary American Psyche With Wit, Whimsy, And Candid Confession. Disappointing Lovers Surface In The Bedroom; In The Bathroom, The Drained Tub Ticks With Mollusks & Lobsters; Revenge Fantasies And Death Lurk In The Basement Where They Rightly Belong. With Lush Imagery And Au Courant Asides, Hothouse Surprises And Delights. Karyna Mcglynn Is The Author Of I Have To Go Back To 1994 And Kill A Girl And Three Chapbooks.-- 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. Poems By Karyna Mcglynn.