by Justin Chin (2002)
"Floating somewhere between fiction and memoir, Burden of Ashes is a mesmerizing literary dreamscape in which childhood, homeland, and lovers both real and imagined succumb to whimsy, revision, and denial. Acclaimed poet, performer, and prose writer Justin Chin has created a place where snake killings, demonic possession, and the enigmatic power of a good kiss somehow coexist. Chin bounds with wild grace through actual events and fictional outcomes, reconciling what has been lost, outgrown, and abandoned with what never even was."--BOOK JACKET.
Leonard J. Arrington
Biography of Mormon Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver covers her childhood in Salt Lake City, school years at LDS High School and University of Utah in Salt Lake City, teaching at the LDS University in Salt Lake City, marriage to inventor Harold Silver, writing, trip around the world, family life, and church activities. Includes one of her short stories and 42 of her poems.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
"At midlife, Mary Rose O'Reilley reflects on her past and her hard-won sense of self. She is determined, now, not to sacrifice or waste her self. She has struggled for years along the paths set by her suburban childhood, her Catholic upbringing, her failed marriage, and the mute duties of daughterhood. Now, she is trying to see the world through the eyes of the deer that stop outside her window and look in at her. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she feels a closer connection to the natural world as experienced by animals. As an apprentice potter, she sees in a Japanese tea bowl the ultimate balance of action and contemplation. As a Quaker, she can both sit still and sing. And as a writer, O'Reilley can speak clearly to readers at midlife who are expected to know it all, but don't."--Jacket.
story by Juan Felipe Herrera
The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time.
J.T. Moriarty
A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.