Tossup
The narrator describes a river that has “two shores: / the one in hell, the other / in [this US state]” in a poem titled for a [emphasize] neighboring state’s “Oldest Whorehouse.” Sons who “grow suicidally beautiful” appear in a poem titled “Autumn Begins in” a town in this state. This was the home state of the poet of The Branch Will Not Break, James Wright, who contributed to a literary magazine founded at a college in this state by John Crowe Ransom. In a story, a teacher’s tendency to caress his students forces him to flee [emphasize] to this state and change his name from Adolph Myers. Wing Biddlebaum appears in a collection set in this state introduced as a “Book of the Grotesque.” For 10 points, the story “Hands” appears in a Sherwood Anderson collection set in what state’s fictional town of Winesburg? ■END■
ANSWER: Ohio [or OH; accept Winesburg, Ohio] (The magazine is The Kenyon Review.)
<Waterloo A, American Literature>
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