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University of Montana

Dirge in Georgia Minor

Abstract

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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.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Grantor dc:publisher
University of Montana
Year
2012

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Garner, Jr., Clinton Wesley

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/324
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-1343

Chain of custody

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Montana Technology
Base URL
scholarworks.umt.edu/do/oai/
Last updated
2026-07-24
Source record
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citation

Garner, Jr., Clinton Wesley. Dirge in Georgia Minor. University of Montana, 2012. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/324