In the mid-twentieth century, Ezra Taft Benson was an important political figure who despised communism and feared that the United States was on the road to moral decay. He decried the rise of feminism and…
In an era awash in a sea of reboots and re-examinations, one may be forgiven for initially wondering why yet another treatment of Mormon Nauvoo is strictly necessary. The city, after all, has received its…
Givens and Hauglid are direct: their goal is to provide a sustained, academic, and nuanced treatment of the Pearl of Great Price [PGP]. Their motive lies in the fact that this volume has received relatively…
Find poetry reviews in the “Dialogue Book Report #10 Podcast: The best of 2020–Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” Dayna Patterson. If Mother Braids a Waterfall. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020. 118 pp. Paper: $10.95. ISBN:…
Find poetry reviews in the “Dialogue Book Report #10 Podcast: The best of 2020–Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” Dayna Patterson. If Mother Braids a Waterfall. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020. 118 pp. Paper: $10.95. ISBN:…
Lavers and Wilkinson know they deserve better and have left the exclusively Mormon world of letters in search of it. Each of these collections concludes with a long list of journals where poems were first published, and the collections, filled largely with these vetted works, are uniformly strong. The percentage of the work that is, on the surface, Mormon in content is low, but when these poets engage with Mormon ideas or themes, they do so in striking and original ways. As Wilkinson’s book had a standalone review in the Fall 2019 issue of Dialogue, I will focus more on Lavers here, but know that both books are strong entries overall and in their Mormon content specifically, and both stand as striking rebuttals to the institutional difficulties mentioned in part one of this review.
Find poetry reviews in the “Dialogue Book Report #10 Podcast: The best of 2020–Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” Michael Lavers. After Earth. Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2019. 89 pp. Paper: $14.00. ISBN: 978-1-59732-172-3. Sunni…
Find poetry reviews in the “Dialogue Book Report #10 Podcast: The best of 2020–Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” R. A. Christmas. Leaves of Sass. Self-published: 2019. 148 pp. Paper: $19.51. ISBN: 9780359896400.Colin B. Douglas. Into the Sun:…
Find poetry reviews in the “Dialogue Book Report #10 Podcast: The best of 2020–Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” R. A. Christmas. Leaves of Sass. Self-published: 2019. 148 pp. Paper: $19.51. ISBN: 9780359896400.Colin B. Douglas. Into the Sun:…
Find poetry reviews in the “Dialogue Book Report #10 Podcast: The best of 2020–Creative Nonfiction and Poetry” R. A. Christmas. Leaves of Sass. Self-published: 2019. 148 pp. Paper: $19.51. ISBN: 9780359896400.Colin B. Douglas. Into the Sun:…