PRAISE FOR BLOSSOM AS THE CLIFFROSE

“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

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“When I ask my Mormon-Jewish daughter when she feels most Mormon, she tells me, ‘When I am outside, in the canyons, in the mountains, in the West.’ The beloved community of writers assembled here articulates a thousand reasons why so many of us feel this way. These are rich and complicated feelings—not just the sublimity of Wordsworth’s environmental imagination, but also feelings of betrayal, reverence, disappointment, pleasure, misunderstanding, and loss appropriate to a place storied with theft and massacre, failed dams and inland seas, uranium and abandoned poisons, dried seeps and sacred groves, salt and gulls, sego lilies, and hordes of crickets. Danielle Dubrasky and Karin Anderson are expert guides to this territory. Let them and this book bring you home.”
—JOANNA BROOKS, author of The Book of Mormon Girl and co-editor of Mormon Feminisms and Decolonizing Mormonism

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“No idea looms larger in the Mormon mind than wilderness—a pure, unspoiled place that gives people refuge and prepares them for revelation. Blossom as the Cliffrose gathers some of Mormonism’s most creative voices to testify to the power of wilderness spaces—in the land, in our faith, and in our lives. The essays and poems in this volume come from the heart of the wilderness and are themselves both refuge and revelation.”
—MICHAEL AUSTIN, author of Reading the World and Buried Treasures