Summary:
This is the first in a [four]-part series which looks at the state of the art of Mormon poetry. The first installment looks at poems centering on the poet, his family and friends. The poems in part two deal with religion, Mormonism in particular and Christianity in general. This broadening of scope continues into the third article, with poems on the natural world, the social world, the political world, finally widening into an invented world with Orson Scott Card's long fantasy, "Prentice Alvin and the No-good Plow. " [Editor's note to the first part] [The series was lengthened to four parts]
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