Salt That Lost Its Savor | Ryan Habermeyer, Salt Folk
Ryan Habermeyer lays down the gauntlet immediately in Salt Folk with “La Petite Mort,” a series of micro-vignettes about a professional elephant masturbator (she is never referred to by any other appellation than “the elephant…
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The Last Day
“Scott Eccles?” “Yes!” “Please follow me.” Scott Eccles leapt from his seat, straightened his tie, and surreptitiously placed his fists on his hips in the Superman pose, for he had watched a video online that…
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“I Cannot Describe Salt”: Elizabeth Willis, Poets in Exile, and the Church Invisible in the Age of Pandemic
Ever since Socrates banished poetry in Book X of Plato’s Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well-governed state, we would gladly admit her,”[1] Western poets…
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Our Artistic Potential | The Mormon Arts Center, The Kimball Challenge at Fifty: Mormon Arts Center Essays
The occasion for this slim new volume of essays is the fiftieth anniversary of Spencer W. Kimball’s “Education for Eternity” talk, delivered to Brigham Young University faculty at the commencement of fall semester 1967. Although…
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Association of Mormon Letters Conference | “For All Things Must Fail”: A Post-Structural Approach to the Book of Mormon
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):138–177
In this paper, I argue that this preoccupation with structural collapse legitimizes a critical consideration of the way that language functions in the book, rendering the Book of Mormon particularly well-suited to a reading that employs the techniques of post-structural criticism.
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Letters to the Editor
Mark Thomas, A Postapocalyptic Perspective?
Jacob Bender, Jacob Bender Responds
Michelle Inouye, Brother, Can You Spare a Book?
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