[…] from the Mormon Midrashim entitled “Explanation, Justification, Sanctification.” In it, the author shares some profound theology with his ten -year–old daughter in a way that she could readily understand through the genre of children’s post–fighting storytelling: […]
[…] in a physical way, implying that the spiritual and physical are unnecessary distinctions. This idea of desire -as–prayer/ordinance recurs throughout later poems. It emerges in the cigarette smoke of her father, who is killing […]
[…] author’s younger self, the titular chapter “Irreversible Things” opens with the sound of cicadas. As a born -and–raised southerner myself, I remember being a child and listening to the rhythmic wailing of thousands of […]
In March of 1895, in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière screened ten short, single -shot films for an audience of two hundred, and the movies were born. Less than ten months later, after years […]
[…] through pilgrimage, both automotive and digital. Anderson and her narrator bleed together in the drives to sun -drenched towns and sun–stripped cemeteries, tracing genealogical roots and mining journals, maps, and microfiche newspaper archives. There […]
[…] How could I ever go to class on that campus where, about two years after every self -respecting kid on the block, I’d finally learned to ride a bike? My ward chafed. Mormonism itself […]
[…] are played according to clearly defined rules. The world of D. J. Butler’s Witchy War novels is an old -growth forest, a kaleidoscope, the stomach of a shark—growing thickly with a thousand different things, constantly shifting […]
[…] Canyon, is set during the Great Depression and features a Mormon protagonist, Hiram Woolley, who uses faith -powered folk magic to face down old evil within a new and fast–changing world. There is a […]
To the Ones who Awakened the Universe with a word And set the Cosmos afire. God -Mom and God–Dad— Stretching forth our hands, We pluck from the Tree of Life. For our mortal lives […]
First, bless the burst of anger; its force will get you free. Then, bless the tears that follow; they will provide new sight. Bless your bare feet as you put them on the earth. Run.…