The world today is too big; too full of sheer human inertia. I don’t think any of us can comprehend the magnitude of cultural currents as we drop pebbles just to watch the water ripple. We think ourselves educated, well-read, perhaps a little hungry for exploration but for the most part masters of our own [...]

After my post a week ago on the launch of a poetry chapbook, William commented:
Considering what a large role chapbooks play in the larger poetry community, I’m a bit suprised that there haven’t been more published for the Mormon literary market (even as small as it is).[see comment]

In response, I promised this post on Chapbooks [...]

A reading from the Book of Mormon. From Nephi’s vision:
“21 And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father! Knowest thou the meaning of the tree which thy father saw?
“22 And I answered him, saying: Yea, it is the love of God, which sheddeth itself [...]

I can’t resist sharing one more selection from Marilynn Robinson’s Gilead [for previous selections see this Bloggernacle Times column]:
“In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of [...]

Source: Clinton F. Larson. “Advent.” Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems. Eds. Eugene England and Dennis Clark. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989. Also appears in Selected Poems of Clinton F. Larson. Ed. David L. Evans. Provo: BYU, 1988.

NOTE: This is the first-ever A Motley Vision reading. It’s a little rough in places, but overall — not a bad way to kick off a new feature.