Mormon Letters Annual, 1987. Papers given at the eighth and ninth Association for Mormon Letters symposia, held in 1985 and 1986, as well as papers given at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conferences held in those same years.
Foreword v
Of Mormon Poesy: An Essay
Edward A. Geary 1
Writing: The Most Hazardous Craft
Edward L. Hart 8
Nephi, Seer of Modern Times: The Home Literature Novels of Nephi Anderson
Richard H Cracroft 12
A Modern Stigma: “Cobwebs”
Veda Tebbs Hale 23
A Distant Influence: Tum Again Home
Herbert Harker 30
Romantic Lyric Form and Western Mormon Experience in Douglas Thayer’s “Under Cottonwoods” and “Opening Day”
Bruce W. Jorgensen 37
Perceptions of the Mormons in Science Fiction: The Writings of Robert A. Heinlein
Bruce and Julie Westergren 49