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Your Youth

Kelly Schirmann

‘I have never been in love / with so many variants of nothing.’

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Granta 137
23rd November 2016
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Granta 137
23rd November 2016

Kelly Schirmann

Kelly Schirmann is a writer, musician and artist from Northern California. She is the author of Popular Music and the co-author of Boyfriend Mountain. She records music as Sung Mountains and edits Black Cake, a record label for contemporary poetry and other experiments. She lives in Oregon.

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