James Miller

James Miller, a prize-winning poet himself, has introduced DIALOGUE'S editors to the unpublished and generally unknown work of his close friend, David Wright, who died in 1967 at the age of thirty-eight. Much impressed icith what we have seen and anxious to end the unfortunate neglect of this fine Mormon writer, we print here the first section of his "River Saints," with a biographical introduction and elegy by Mr. Miller. We plan to publish other work by Wright in the future and would welcome reader responses to this first selection.

The Town of my Youth

Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 3

                        A north town, north in mountains
                        the beavering trappers cached—
                        one—two-hundred years ago—
                        the religion house, in a good sky,
                        the two-hat temple brimmed
                        in roofy granite, and blacksmith tin.

Discovering a Mormon Writer: David L. Wright 1929-1967: Dave Elegy

Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 2

Discovering a Mormon Writer: David L. Wright 1929-1967: Introduction

Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 2

In his writing lifetime, David L. Wright, a brilliant young author from southern Idaho, did come to know some measure of fame after the publica tion of his short story “A Summer in the Country,”…