Irreantum, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2002
Irreantum Summer 2002—Volume 4, Number 2
Letters to the Editor
By Marsha Bowns, Darlene Young, and Marilyn Brown
President’s Message
Engaging the Environment through LDS Writing, Gideon O. Burton
Editorial
This Issue’s Environmental Theme, Todd Robert Petersen
Interview
Terry Tempest Williams
Interviewed by Jana Bouck Remy
Memoir Excerpt
Leap, Terry Tempest Williams
Poetry
Riparian Passage, Leon Chidester
Lambing, Leon Chidester
Flood, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Leaving Virginia, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Weather Advisory, Leon Chidester
Getting Home from Ithaca, 1968, Bruce Jorgensen
Poetry Month 1999: Two Notes from a Road Trip, Bruce Jorgensen
At the Confluence, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Priesthood in the Garden, Stanton H. Hall
Song for an Old Man’s Autumn, Leon Chidester
Moving toward You, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Utah: Five Sacred Lessons, Susan Elizabeth Howe
Isaiah’s Elations, George Handley
Essays
In Search of the Elemental: An Elaboration on an Entry from My Wilderness Journal, Levi S. Peterson
The Quest for Essences as an Archaic Religious Quest: Terry Tempest Williams’s Interrogation of Faith, Art, and Earthly Life in Leap,Neila C. Seshachari
Keepers of the Stories, Dan Wotherspoon
Stories
Vigil, Darin Cozzens
Desideratum, Julie West Staheli
The Thing about Benny, M. Shayne Bell
Candle, David M. Clark
Editorial
Twenty-Five Years of Writing with One Ear, Harlow Soderborg Clark
Essay
Poet in Search of a Longer Narrative Form, Patricia Gunter Karamesines
Poetry
When in the Grip, Paris Anderson
What Abraham Has to Say, Darlene Young
Song for His Left Ear, Dennis Clark
The Foolish Pilgrims, Patricia Gunter Karamesines
It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist, Patricia Gunter Karamesines
Reviews
Passion and Paradox, Brooke Williams. A review of Terry Tempest Williams’s Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl: Coming of Age in Utah’s Earlier Days, Valerie Holladay. A review of LaVon B. Carroll’s Love, Sin, & Survival: Three Women in 1930s Utah
I Liked the Book, But Not the Parents, Natalie Martingale. A review of B. J. Rowley’s 16 in No Time
Adventures in History, Larry Jackson. A review of Gerald N. Lund’s The Kingdom and the Crown, Volume Two: Come unto Me
It Takes a Village to Raise a Purposeful Mother, Susan Barnson-Hayward. A review of Colleen Down’s It Takes a Mother to Raise a Village and Emily Watts’s Being the Mom: Ten Coping Strategies I Learned by Accident Because I Had Children on Purpose
Lessons in Friendship, Meredith Eaton. A review of Julie Wright’s To Catch a Falling Star
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