[…] the re cent brief survey of Mormon historiography by Davis Bitton and Leonard Arrington, and the happy news that Newell Bring hurst is preparing a biography of Fawn Brodie. It is now abundantly apparent […]
Each year first-class presses add to the growing number of excellent Mormon monographs. Twenty-nine major studies appeared in 1988 alone. These two volumes from the University of Missouri Press and the University of Oklahoma […]
[…] to our mountain-valley home, I mimicked their sighs of relief, grateful to be back in a green world. These sighs were echoes of those uttered by pioneer Saints, who looked upon desert as Old […]
[…] and he also loves to write poetry. I don’t think this can be said of everybody in the poetry business. These three chapbooks are evidence of Dennis’s development as an artist, his concern for […]
[…] and appeal. One feels a generosity of spirit emanating from this aggregate, a poetic vision that embraces the mother culture without militancy and looks outward as often as inward. Most of the poems were […]
She leaves the women in her husband’s house and makes a slow way home to her own mother, to friends singing as they bring sweet butter for the first month, molasses
I purposely forget what you look like so each time I see you I am surprised again by your beauty. Your name is the charm I offer nervous cats instead of
After your letter, I hoped to translate, if I could, apples and bread into dark open streets. That girl in Heidelberg drew a black line, white paper against the shed door,
Always she is there on that far island in my mind, where it is always night, and the moon tears into a world of leaves, and is torn. A child, she steps
Cornmeal, dusted over these loaves like pollen. And I wish again for the old unwritten recipes: brown breads, chicken baked in a wrap of cornmeal, family reunion picnics I can’t match with my own.