March Children
April 9, 2018Her head nestled in the palm of my hand
not so long ago,
little lips tugged my breast,
fingers pink as birthday candles
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The Dream of Mormon Sovereignty Ends | Donald R. Moorman with Gene A. Sessions, Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War
April 9, 2018Donald R. Moorman’s literate account of the Utah War is set within the larger panorama of events in mid-nineteenth century America and relates the process by which the isolated Mormon community in the Great Basin…
Negative Space
April 9, 2018It’s hard being Mormon Mormon mind regards nipples
Reproductive Rights and the “New” American Family | Robin Fox, Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology Law, and Society
April 9, 2018Of great importance in the study of Mormon interrelationships is how polygyny fits into the larger picture of the modern American family. In his witty, provocative volume on reproductive rights and law in Ameri can…
Welfare as Warfare | Garth L. Mangum and Bruce D. Blumell, The Mormons’ War on Poverty: A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990
April 7, 2018Although this book has an overly dramatic title, it is a magnificent and sensitive history of the efforts by church members and leaders to respond meaningfully to economic need, not only in LDS communities but…
Razor Sharp
April 7, 2018You, my father,
Too damned independent at seventy-five
To admit you could no longer handle
A simple double-edge Gillette,
In the Right Hands
April 7, 2018“Let’s see what sort of surprises await us in Jennifer’s story,” Jean-Paul said wearily and shuffled the story pages on his desk, as though by doing so he would impose order on narrative chaos. What…
A Reply
April 7, 2018There are significant differences between historical investigation of controversial issues and the polemical use of history. Jeff D. Blake’s essay is a textbook example of polemics impersonating as history. First, he employs the classic “straw…
Ernest L. Wilkinson and the 1966 BYU Spy Ring: A Response to D. Michael Quinn
April 7, 2018The summer 1993 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought featured D. Michael Quinn’s near-definitive discussion of Ezra Taft Benson’s political activities during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Despite Quinn’s thorough documentation, in the section…
1948
April 7, 2018She was learning German that year,
a war bride, living in Darmstadt,
trying to say ich in the back of her throat,
the guttural r of Herr and Frau, to introduce