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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 (10[1])by John Crowe Ransom. In a story, a teacher’s tendency to caress his students forces him to flee (10[1])[emphasize] to this state and change his name from Adolph (10[1])Myers. Wing Biddlebaum appears in a collection set in this state introduced as a “Book of the Grotesque.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the story “Hands” appears in a Sherwood Anderson (10[1])collection set in what state’s (10[2])fictional town of (10[1])Winesburg? (10[1])■END■

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