David Lee, Mine Tailings (Boulder, UT: Five Sisters Press, 2019), 79 pages. David Lee was formerly the poet laurate of Utah and has been affectionally referred to as “the Pig Poet.” About the time I was leaving Utah, Lee … Continue reading
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Nancy Koester, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 371 pages, B&W photos, notes. Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The novel’s popularity fueled the anti-slavery movement in the North and … Continue reading
Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 348 pages. I enjoyed this novel even though it was hard to get through the opening part which included an incestuous rape of Margo, a teenage girl. … Continue reading