[…] the course of the novel. Bones, which won first prize in the 1984 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Com petition, is beautifully designed and produced. It is also apparent from early in the book […]
[…] window alcoves of the castle, with dates of the kills below them. The dates cover Peder’s Jaegerspris service, so the panels may be said to record Peder and King Frederick’s friendship. They hunted together […]
[…] bills. Under his guidance, Frank conferred with Blaine, an old congressional friend from the senior Cannon’s earlier service as Utah delegate. Now secretary of state to President Harrison, Blaine instructed young Cannon to make […]
[…] startling secular contexts, now comic, now sinister, that give familiar words and phrases new currency. Thus we get “the spiritually attuned public relations and marketing specialist” in a corporation merchandising “free-market Christianity,” and we […]
[…] ago. Columbia is offering a history seminar on Mormonism. At Yale the noted critic Harold Bloom is writing a book on Mormonism, and in a November 1990 lecture at the University of Utah, Bloom […]
[…] the casual reader and in much larger editions than most books about Mormonism in Italy. Unfortunately, Straniero reviews only the early history of the Church and fails to discuss important historical developments since the […]
As Leatrice Lifshitz explains in her introduction, this unusual collection of verse represents “an attempt to return old women to the circle, to the continuum of women and of life” (p. viii), and its rich…
[…] air was thick. We drove the block to the post office in silence. “Nellie, go in and get the mail,” Mom snapped. “I don’t know how to open the box,” I said. “How many […]
[…] in her recovery. The rest of the poems again affirm the richness of experience—waterskiing at Lake Powell, writing poetry, rolling in a bathtub full of water and then shivering under a cold shower, waking […]
[…] in time and money would not be worth the outcome. However, I had become very interested in writing and literature, so I enrolled at Brigham Young University as an English major. At BYU, I […]