The prophet Joseph Smith once told Nancy Rigdon, whom he was attempting to persuade to become his plural wife, that whatever God required was right, no matter what it was (374). Smith went […]
My sister sings Puccini in the shower. A fever ripped the muscle of her heart when she was five but now she is almost twenty-one and lovely. She leaves music
[…] printing was 1,500 copies. Soon after a negative review of the Roberts book appeared in the “Church News” section of the Deseret News, the edition sold out and a second printing was published. With […]
There’s this house where four retarded men live who go to church on Sundays. In the other ward, they come at nine; sometimes I see the four shaking hands like the ushers. This year, […]
When did I find the music of another open-window autumn? I’ve left more vodka empties near the wardhouse dumpster.
Prisoner for Polygamy is not simply another volume in the vast collection of diaries, histories, auto- biographies, and biographies of Mormon polygamists. Rather it is a slice of life, a document describing the immediate consequences […]
[…] branch on a long rope to soak up odors, storm dust, and heavy drops of rain, till the branch sags with my weight and I strain for the ground I grew on. Those who […]
It is not that I miss you now but I miss it—when I swallowed your finger the first night and restrained myself in deference to