Clinton F. Larson

Clinton Foster Larson was an American poet and playwright and the founding editor of BYU Studies. Larson was born in American Fork, Utah to Clinton Larson and his wife, the former Lillian Foster. Larson started college at the University of Utah at age 16 with plans to study medicine.

Articles

Homestead In Idaho

I “Solomon? Since I talked with him I’ve thoughtAgain about trying to make a go of it In Idaho. As I say, this rainy weather In Oregon is looking better and better to me.The first time I…

Crucifixion in Judea

The myth and the reality convey the sign:
INRI, but we in the distance of history,
Precise and limitless, survey and then define
His suffering again, for our consistory.
We know in the analogues of formulative speech
That Pretonious drove Him down against the cross
And split His palms where they could reach.
Crimen est actio before this miracle of dross.

A Letter from Israel Whiton, 1851

A crest of wind runs and rustles through the pinons
Below the butte, and it is evening; the moss-green shade
Glimmers with lancets and gems of the afternoon sun;
The fields beyond glow yellow-gold; and the overcast
Of azure dims pale and like powder in the air
Fails away into the recesses of light and time.
I sit before a candle that tips its flame
From the door, and I write . . .

Dear Mother:
I received a letter from you the 8 of May.
I was very glad to hear from you but I had to wet
The letter with tears. You are a good Mother to me.
Their was a letter came from Father too.

The Princes of God

The darkness said tyranny!
And poured inward, defining
The breeding swirl of chaos
For the scarabaeidae of time.

The absence of light became
My prayer of darkness, skeining
And reining:
I am that I am,

A Vision of Words

Inside, to the left, in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge University, rests the great painting, “The Adoration of the Magi,” by Peter Paul Rubens. To the right, the King’s College Choir prepares to sing. The hinged…