(2009) McCafferty, Brent Matthew; Arnold, Elizabeth; Creative Writing; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
The thesis's title section moves among Montana cities (Havre, Polson, Missoula), animals (grouse), drugs (meth), and yacht spots (Whitefish River). Through the voices of an anhedonic son and his parents I try, as George Oppen puts it in "Myth of the Blaze," "to know//what I have said to myself."