| Show C4 The Salt Lake Tribune THE ARTS Sunday September 5 1993 den" attempts to crack the hard nut of relationships between UTAH UNDER COVER Paul Swenson By t Cr Crazy for Living Linda Sinai Slenature Kooks $IO 95 Pos-in- s b:s morning a jet noses into nothing constant but blue as I wind up the concrete bridge to a parking plaza crazy for living and for no special reason "" i9511rel10041: 24-ho- mothergods murders and murmurous nights Sometimes in disguise sometimes not these are love poems of both liminal and subliminal power In "Journalist" Section I of the book the poet diverts the pain and tension of her other profession into elegant edgy lyricism (Sil litoe's Salamander: The Mon 77101Z Forgery Murders with Allen Roberts was the definitive Mark Hofmann odyssey) Memory is brought up hard against mayhem in "Recess" a visit to her old neighborhood during a break from court: amber as light evening: elleS angled through heer - 1 laughing at a private joke turned telling walking toward an impossibly balmy night once we all invented rules for each other now we huddle and circle we fly as if unaware that an explosion coils in every flower's heart A poet and a fiction writer I tral olerfatAitallkive-'1"- ume of poetry cycle Completing its dark to dusk in the city the poem brings us to - -- t' In this books title poem that -double-edge- d phrase Crazy for Living" has the exuberance and the poignance that exemplify so much of Linda Sillitoe's first vol- 1 1-- bere- fore she turned investigative porter in the late 1970s Sillitoe didn't abandon her art while No one supposes I am walking back to my ugly notes on a double murder a naturalist losing spring to unearth a spider webb Extricated it must gleam geometrically word by word Sunstreams continue your hard green in the surprised leaves give me unjustified pounding a typewriter and a beat Her novel Sideways to the Sun and a book of short stories Windows on the Sea were published during the 1980s Her double persona became both fused and confused in some people's minds (one publication thought she wrote "investigative poetry") In any case the poems continue to flow Si Ilitoe writes of dreams and politics stones and crystals eagles and mesas Navajo moons what killing cost: more sky more time spouses lovers friends parents and children "1 know where the bodies are buried in my house and can whistle pastindefinitely before I sift" Sillitoe writes in "Missing Persons" The poem "Request" is really a plea: "just for nowwhile i find no skyor horizonno mountainsonly fog on the twigsfor beautycould you pleasereturn my callsinstead ofstirring my dreams?" Sillitoe's poems from Navajo country in "Section IL Journeys Between" throb with mystery initiation and love as in "Journey Poem III": "What is more real — the live eagle we passedor the eagles you described who mated in flight?We still drive an unknown road at sunsetdrawn toward a stone eagle you've heard ofperched beside the cliffs I asked to see" Sillitoe's Sonia Johnson poem "November's End 1979" today reads more ominously as prophecy: "Five women talkingchurch and politics (religious politics) in a room lit yellow in a Virginia woodsWe laughed at the disasterthat hadn't happenedyet and ' MTH (THoitopTLSS! - t I rv I t 1 t 7:'1'! I 4 I le !In :- -' ' : :Z:: 4- t i 47Ct H$ tt - Ps -- While Carol Tuttle describes sexual abuse and spiritual healing in the prose of most how-t- o books the emotional epiphanies of her cast of survivors fortunately leak through anyway This is another in the proliferation of books acknowledging and addressing abuse in the LDS Church community although Tuttle also tries to shape her message for those based in other strict religious traditions Herself a victim of childhood incest Tuttle cites sources for healing from abuse ranging from Laura Davis to John Bradhsaw to LDS General Authority Richard Scott whose most controversial comments are not mentioned From her own and others' experience Tuttle emphasizes the importance of reclaiming the "inner child" wounded by abuse of ending secrecy and silence learning to feel again experiencing anger and grief and working with support groups and counselors Despite her subtitle Tuttle fails to define spiritual abuse and only acknowledges it obliquely as in the story of a woman whose LDS counselor tried to shame her into feeling guilty That poetic prophetic voice remains unstilled more than a decade later in "an early elegy in lower case": i pay my respects by saying what's true in love and anger you served us crumbs you see and we hungered for our own bowls of bread and milk SNEER The Path to Wholeness Personal Approach to Spiritual Healing and Empowerment for Individuals Recovering From Sexual and Spiritual Abuse A Paul Swenson is a writer in Salt Lake City By Carol Tuttle Covenant Communications: $995 922 95 first-perso- 4 f Sprawl Healers Clan elldresas propelsnafy in Alabama on two parallel tracks aln terriatIfig tebteen Fevjoe'li narrative of the dramatic n events in Industry and a account of Lucille's melodramatic exploits in Tinseltown Eventually of course the two stories converge this time in a packed courtroom in Industry with the whole world watching — and with both Martin Luther King Jr and George Wallace in town for "Integration Day" In a sense Crazy is Alabama is a dual coming-of-ag- e tale Here's Peejoe facing real life and death for the first time making some hard choices "I was fascinated by people out of control acting on impulse when their masks were stripped away and they were forced to show their true selves Watching the women in Mattie Jackson's hanco abandon themselves to grief watching Taylor Jackson stand down that lifeI felt the same giddy guard sensation now marching with this excited rabble toward something dangerous and new" And here's Lucille exhilarated freedom but re by her hard-wo- n alizing that she can't throw away the past on her way to being a new person "For days now she had sensed a shadow trailing her a dark silhouette running along underneath her happiness She knew this was not her real life but only a wonderful vacation from life a vacation now moving toward its inevitable end" As in such previous books as V is for Victor and Tender Childress shows himself to be a smooth skillful storyteller who fully understands his characters' hearts and heads And speaking of heads remind me to tell you about that Tupperware Crazy in Alabama By Mark Childrew Putnam I held our breathsSuddenly through the windowa vast current of darkswept in on us a floodof event dry as dark air" "Section II: Journeys in Tan hertrthreak team up m quhly 'Crazy in Alabama The free-lanc- e If I told you I'd just read a terrific new book that was a combination of "Thelma and Louise" and To Kill a Mockingbird you'd probably think I'd been out in the sun too long But before you send for the men in the white coats pick up a copy of Mark Childress' novel Crazy in Alabama and see who you're calling crazy Hilarity and heartbreak go hand in hand in this tale which also features a new and unusual use for Tupperware In the summer of 1965 everybody goes crazy in Alabama or so it seems to Peter Joseph Bullis universally known as Peejoe Things begin to fall apart when his Aunt Lucille commits a desperate act and heads for Holwhere she has been lywood promised an audition for a role on "The Beverly Hillbillies" Then because Peejoe's grandmother is stuck with taking care of Lucille's six young children (all named after movie stars) orphaned Peejoe and his older brother Wiley have to go stay with their Uncle Dove in the little town of Industry At first Peejoe thinks it's kind of cool living above the funeral home that Dove operates but he has mixed feelings about Industry where whites and blacks lead separate unequal and increasingly uneasy lives The opening of a "whites only" swimming pool spills over into confrontation and violence and Peejoe comes face to face not only with prejudice but with murder Lucille meanwhile remains on the lam careening her way out West via New Orleans and Las Vegas She's determined to leave her old life behind and reinvent herself as the glamorous Carolyn third-perso- — Nancy Pate Orlando Sentinel rENIM011111WRICEIr PAPERBACKS IN BRIEF Diary of Mormon pioneer in Canada drowns in details mous families to Canada Card was successful in enriching the religious economic and agricultural life of southern Alberta and the Canadian west contributions for which he has been called Canada's Brigham Young Edited painstakingly over the past decade by two of Card's grandsons the massive 668- page volume has been hailed by research historian Maureen Ursenbach Beecher as "the most significant event in the study of Mormonism in Canada" It is certainly a starting point for historians and other academics looking for primary sources for the study of Canada and the West In addition the diaries will prove useful to the curious as well as Utahns and other descendants who left Cache Valley to find new agricultural lands to supplant those being lost to urban growth in Utah even before statehood Mr Godfrey an associate professor of journalism at Arizona State University and Mr Card professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Alberta help the scholar and general reader by dividing the 16 years of entries into seven periods beginning when Card The Diaries of Charles Ora Card The Canadian Years Edited by Donald 1886-190- 3 G Godfrey and Brigham Y Card University of Utah Press $45 Nov 14 1888 two years before the October 1890 Manifesto prohibiting plural marriages in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints a group of LDS leaders from Utah met with representatives of Canadian prime minister John A MacDonald from whom they sought permission to bring polygamous families to Canada The Mormons were politely told they were free to bring anything they wanted to Canada — but not the practice of polygamy The event recorded in the diaries of Charles Ora Card is only one of dozens of recorded events valuable not only to Canadians and historians but to others interested in the settlement of the Northwest Territories by emigrants from the Cache Valley who went seeking religious refuge and who stayed to help colonize a new nation Despite his lack of success in getting approval to practice polygamy or bring polyga y LOS ANGELES TIMES plural marriage The best section is the first on the exploration and preparation for migration to Canada The entries not only provide a view of the beginnings of many Canadian communities in Alberta British Columbia and Manitoba but also describe homesteads in Montana Idaho and Cache Valley where Card served as an LDS and community leader before being sent to Canada by LDS Church President John Taylor The rest of the diaries pertain to Card as a fugitive and refugee his leadership presiding over the Canadian mission and his extensive businesses and community activities As is the case with most diary publications there are too many bookkeeping details of life and too little on what possible meaning they might hold for future generations "Worked milli 4 pm" "Walked 2 miles" "I wrote to my wives" The reader constantly wishes he could know just what Card really felt instead of 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