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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 (10[1])[emphasize] neighboring state’s “Oldest Whorehouse.” Sons who “grow suicidally beautiful” appear in a poem titled “Autumn Begins in” (-5[1])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 (-5[1])founded at a college in this state by John Crowe Ransom. In a story, a teacher’s tendency (-5[1])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, (10[1])the story “Hands” appears (10[1])in a Sherwood Anderson collection (10[1])set in what state’s (10[1])fictional town of Winesburg? ■END■ (10[3])

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