Year of Award
2012
Document Type
Professional Paper - Campus Access Only
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Department or School/College
Department of English
Committee Chair
Joanna Klink
Commitee Members
Greg Pape, MaryAnn Bonjorni, Nancy Cook
Keywords
poetry, psychogeography
Publisher
University of Montana
Abstract
We are no fictions, and we are getting heavier. We no longer tell our mirrors 'This can’t be happening.' Because we will not lower ourselves, you can keep your Najaf, its obstinate earth baking its people hard as rock from meridian to meridian. This earth blowing itself apart as fast as we can arrange it. As if death and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our entire bodies— somehow negotiable across this blackness—are and are not so. Every day blued steel blackens palms, ashen knuckles wrung numb—the crossing and relaxing of so many pairs of fingers begging release, as we carry in one last finger-fold our will.
Recommended Citation
Garner, Jr., Clinton Wesley, "Dirge in Georgia Minor" (2012). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 324.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/324
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