Maximilian Werner earned an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University and is the author of the essay collection Black River Dreams and the novel Crooked Creek. His poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays have appeared in journals and magazines, including Matter Journal: Edward Abbey Edition, The North American Review, ISLE, Weber Studies, Fly Rod & Reel, and Columbia. He lives in Salt Lake City and teaches writing at the University of Utah.
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Acknowledgments Author's Note Part I. Trillium Part II. Heat Monster Part III. Canine Tableaux Part IV. Earthshine
"A captivating, lyrical, multi-layered portrait of the narrator's adolescence and contemporary parenthood. This story is not that of Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge, nor is it Amy Irvine's Trespass; its portrait of the region, the city, the characters and time, are distinctly different, irreverent, darkly funny, the story of coming into manhood in a city whose wild areas are the scenes of wild parties and escapades instead of solitary meditations. The contrast between the narrator and the Mormon culture of the region was something I'd not seen described before."-James Barilla, author of West with the Rise: Fly-fishing across America "In this beautifully written and highly personal memoir, a forty-something father of two small children sorts through a past that includes plenty of fast cars, sex, and drug use. The quality of the prose is strong."-Paul Bogard, author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light