A Body That Expands
April 11, 2018My sister sings Puccini in the shower.
A fever ripped the muscle of her heart
when she was five but now she is almost
twenty-one and lovely. She leaves music
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Great Basin Kingdom Revisited
April 11, 2018My story might justly be entitled, to borrow a phrase from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Epiphany in the Room of a College Dormitory.” It all began in the spring of 1939, fifty-four years ago, when I…
Double Exposure
April 11, 2018The picture gathers from a host of things—
From giggles of remembering, not play
By play but one word lifting from another
Into a rearview record, a happy weather
Telling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature
April 11, 2018Ever since Mormonism’s founding prophet declared that “No man knows my history/’ writers have been left to imagine it and all its consequences. In short, the Mormon experience is the stuff of literature. Contemporary Mormon…
How Common the Principle? Women as Plural Wives in 1860
April 11, 2018Dialogue 26.2 (Summer 1993): 139–153
A study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.
Sacrament Prayer
April 11, 2018It’s the simplicity I like, no pulpit thunder,
no fiery “Thou shalt nots” rattling the soul.
A set prayer, phrases you can roll around
your mouth all week, then string together
Each in Her Own Time: Four Zinas
April 11, 2018A family story provides an image which well expresses Zina Young Card. On the portico over the main entrance to the Lion House, built by her father Brigham Young for his large family, rests the…
Brando
April 11, 2018Marlon Brando’s such a babe in Guys and Dolls,
it’s an ideal, makes you feel
positively reverent, same as orange blossoms,
the way they delicately ask to seduce
Warren Travels With His Father
April 11, 2018in the
dense Montana heat, the BLM vehicle musty
and smelling of oil, sweat, and age.
A Strange Phenomena: Ernest L. Wilkinson, the LDS Church, and Utah Politics
April 11, 2018For Ernest Leroy Wilkinson, successful Washington, D.C., lawyer and seventh president of Brigham Young University, campaign politics was a game he could never master. From his rowdy youth in Ogden, Utah’s notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had been fascinated by the nature and use of power. By the time he was fifty, he had secured a string of hard-won national victories as a tenacious and intimidating legalist. But the lure of politics remained the one attraction, despite other professional and personal accomplishments, he could not resist.