
Brent D. Corcoran
BRENT CORCORAN {[email protected]} is production manager for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and the Journal of Mormon History. He has published three poems in Dialogue. He thanks Lavina Fielding Anderson, Gary James Bergera and Mary Lythgoe Bradford for their helpful advice in preparing this review.
“My Father’s Business”: Thomas Taylor and Mormon Frontier Economic Enterprise
Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1
Shortly after Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah in July 1847 Brigham Young planned for an anticipated population explosion by exploring the region and locating sites which could support new settlements and industries. Parley P. Pratt…
Read moreLucifer’s Obit.
Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 3
We note, today, the passing
of our most dreared departed—
father of lies, child of perdition,
mother of woes, and friend to sin.
Cargoes II
Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1
Tanker from al-Kuwayt on the Persian Gulf
Passes the Straits of Hormuz (which Americans hold),
With a cargo of “black gold”—
Gas and petroleum—
For further refinement in Galveston.
Flannel Board
Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 1
I’ve been inured to violence, so understand,
I’ve no sensation for nails smashing through feet:
Instead, show the tale of footprints on the beach,
because I know how sore feet get in sand.
The Feeling of Knowing | Tyler Chadwick, ed., Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets
Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 3
For me, poetry’s unique power is to hold in immediate suspension what we know and how we know it. Poets surpass philosophers in representing a harmonious tension of ontology and epistemology. We renew through the condensation of poetic language the feeling of knowing most authentically. The poems in Fire in the Pasture are not wanting. As a group of poems, Fire succeeds admirably in renewing our feelings of knowing.
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