Nickel Girls
April 12, 2018Sometimes boys would stand
on the high school stairs
and throw nickels at girls
in low-cut blouses, hoping
DiaBLOGue
Over Coffee, 600 B.C.
April 12, 2018A friend of mine told me —
so I know it’s true —
she saw someone in the road
behind her house
Penetrating the Heart of Mormonism | Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth: Homecoming
April 12, 2018The Memory of Earth begins the five volume story of the Oversoul, the master computer of the planet Harmony. For forty million years, the Oversoul has preserved peace among humans exiled into space by a…
Song of the Old/Oldsongs | Leatrice Lifshitz, Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems about Old Women
April 12, 2018As Leatrice Lifshitz explains in her introduction, this unusual collection of verse represents “an attempt to return old women to the circle, to the continuum of women and of life” (p. viii), and its rich…
The Building of Mormon History in Italy | Massimo Introvigne, Le nuove religioni; Massimo Introvigne, Le sette cristiane: Dai Testimoni di Geova al Reverendo Moon; Massimo Introvigne, “Il canone aperto: rivelazione e nuove rivelazioni nella teologia e nella storia dei Mormoni”; and Michele Straniero, I Mormoni. Leggenda e storia, liturgia e teologia dei Santi degli Ultimi Giorni
April 12, 2018Since 1844 numerous books have been published in Italy containing the observations of travelers who have visited Nauvoo or Salt Lake City. While some of these travel accounts have been remark ably objective, most have been…
A Man for All Seasons | George D. Smith, ed., An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton
April 12, 2018The William Clayton journals elevate Signature Book’s series of nineteenth century Mormon diaries to a high level of primary documentation. Although excel lent biographies of Clayton have already been published, George D. Smith has brought…
A Valuable Addition to the Literature | Jean Bickmore White, ed., Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith
April 12, 2018Reviewers expect to apply somewhat different criteria to an edited diary than to a monograph, interpretive book, or col lection of essays. Instead of asking questions about the scope of the research, the felicity of…
Pancha Loca
April 12, 2018Pancha Robinson was doing dishes at her mother’s sink and watching her husband Rick, who was out in the backyard with the children. Gloria, Pancha’s sister, was sitting at the kitchen table fiddling with a…
Luke’s Train Ride
April 12, 2018Luke had a dream. When I first married his daughter Marie, she warned me that he believed dreams were a form of personal revelation. But it was not until the summer of 1952 that I…
Ovum
April 12, 2018The egg insists on its own reality,
So I go along, easy, not one
To counter what I don’t know.