Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild

2021 Association of Mormon Letters Award Finalist

"Meditative and energizing, fierce and loving, balanced and rhythmic. An invitation to welcome faith and nature, and to embrace the tensions and beauty that spring from every crack and cranny along the way."
--FOREWORD REVIEWS

Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by talented writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter-day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges us to examine the myriad ways our own deeply rooted heritage shapes our personal relationship with landscape.

Author: Karin Anderson
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 06/08/2021
Pages: 417
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781948814423
ISBN10: 1948814420
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | American | General

About the Author
KARIN ANDERSON is a professor of English at Utah Valley University where she focuses on creative writing, lit theory, wilderness and environmental writing, LGBTQ lit, contemporary narrative genres, and honor legacies. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and holds degrees from Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. The author of the novel Before Us Like a Land of Dreams, she hails from the Great Basin of Utah.

DANIELLE BEAZER DUBRASKY directs the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values and is an associate professor of creative writing at Southern Utah University. Danielle holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah and an MA in English/creative writing from Stanford. She is lead author of a poetry curriculum published by the Journal of Poetry Therapy and a two-time winner of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums original writing competition in poetry. Her chapbook, Ruin and Light, won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition and her poems were published in Invisible Shores, a limited edition artist book from Red Butte Press. She lives in Cedar City, Utah.