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English
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"Moonbeams from a Larger Lunacy" : Poetry in the Reorganization
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 1983
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16
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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22-32
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This study addresses poetry within the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and defines an RLDS poet as someone who belongs to the RLDS church and who has published poetry in some form or other. While these may appear to be large parameters, they include a rather select — if not necessarily superior — group of persons. In defining poetry I shall revert to the words of an old first sergeant: "It is what they say it is!" Thus, if something has been published as poetry I have not chosen to argue. These definitions are both too inclusive and too exclusive, but the simple fact of determining that there is an RLDS literary tradition of some kind makes any other definition awesome