Scott R. Christensen has made an auspicious entry into the realm of Mormon history with his book Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887. Already the volume has won the 1999 Evans Handcart Prize and […]
If, when September rolls over in the gutter, picks himself up and stumbles off in search of a restroom, coffee and eggs, you pull back the drapes and slide open the window, he will […]
After another day hiking the desert, I lock the door of my car, and turn toward the hot springs in the cool night.
We returned to our beginnings in August, with its crayola green trees and grass, blue sky, and yellow light so certainly imposed
M. Guy Bishop has moved away from famous Mormon church leaders to delve into the life of a minor member who had a major appointment with American history. Henry William Bigler’s life is one […]
We had to fly to her brother’s wedding. But she lay prone on a heating pad, the room spinning above, and her weight and blood pressure each
We inch forward on hearsay, rumors, and puffs of wind, working the ancient arts of dead reckoning, stars,
Most likely it was an act of God that the cathedral caught fire even before the hangman put the mask on my head and all my executioners ran in search of water
I feel grace descend like whiskey-scented oil poured over me in the upper room on my way to heaven. I dance in the heat of a fire, like ghosts following Sitting Bull
—for Beth Rich She was seventy-one, moving on. Her five-foot-two leukemia-lessened to eighty pounds, only her hands the same, large, fanned storehouse of comfort, her vitaligo, the brown pattern of taking on the sun […]