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Marden J. Clark
Marden J. Clark, of Provo, Utah, was professor of English at Brigham Young University. A thoughtful essayist on Mormon and literary themes, Clark collected his essays in Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature (Aspen, 1992).

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Also Known As Marden Clark
Birth Date July 13, 1916
Death Date May 15, 2003
Birth Place Morgan, Utah
Spouse Bessie Soderberg Clark
Children He and his wife have 6 children.
Education Ph.D., English, University of Washington
Career Professor of English, Brigham Young University
Fulbright Lecturer in Finland
Truck driver, Lockhead employee
Awards Second Prize, Poetry, Association for Mormon Letters, 1978 ("God's Plenty")
Poetry Award, Association for Mormon Letters, 1979 (Moods: Of Late)
Second Place, Poetry, 1986 Dialogue Writing Award Winner, "August 6"
Personal Essay Award, Association for Mormon Letters, 1992 (Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature)
Honorary Lifetime Membership, Association for Mormon Letters 1992
Award in Poetry, Association for Mormon Letters, 1995 ("Snows")
Personal Statement "For whether the man of religion likes it or not he needs and uses the resources of art to arrive at, to define, and to communicate his deepest insights. And whether the artist likes it or not his deepest insights ring with religious overtones."
Other Biographical Information The Harold B. Lee Library also has his manuscript autobiography in their L. Tom Perry Special Collections.

Works by Marden J. Clark
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Modern and Classic: The Wooing Both Ways[1972]Criticism
The Boon: A Temporary Summing Up1996Criticism
Paradox and Tragedy in Mormonism1983Criticism
Toward a More Perfect Order Within: Being the Confessions of an Unregenerate But Not Unrepentant Mistruster of Mormon Literature1983Criticism
Blending Cadences: Rhythm and Structure in Moby Dick1976Criticism
On the Mormon Commitment to Education1972Criticism
Art, Religion, and the Market Place1966Criticism
Life to the Spirit: A Rejoinder1966Criticism
Internal Theology1964Criticism
Religious Implications in the Novels of Robert Penn Warren 1961Criticism
The Wages of Sin in Hawthorne 1959Criticism
Elements of Aristotelian Tragedy in Melville's Moby Dick 1949Criticism Dissertation / Thesis
The Worth of Fiction: Interviews with Marilyn Arnold, Marden Clark and Ed Geary1979Interview / Panel
Art, Religion, and the Market Place1966Interview / Panel
I Taught People - Or Should Have1998Personal Essay
Graduation! To What?1992Personal Essay
In the Midst of Miracle--So What?1992Personal Essay
Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature1992Personal Essay Collection
Science, Religion, and the Humanities: The Profounder Challenge1992Personal Essay
The Virtue of "Virtue": A Sermon1992Personal Essay
We Have Our Standards (for Mormon Writers)1992Personal Essay
Zion and the Arts: What Will Really Matter?1992Personal Essay
“I’d Rather Be...”1987Personal Essay
Whose Yoke Is Easy?1982Personal Essay
The New Mormon Mysticism1980Personal Essay
Liberating Form1977Personal Essay
Some Implications of Human Freedom1970Personal Essay
November 22, 1963-and After2001Poetry
To Brian, Lying Dying2001Poetry
Light Leaves1999Poetry
Living Words for Easter1999Poetry
Razor Sharp1995Poetry
On X-ing1994Poetry
Snows1994Poetry
Sonnet: On His Blindness to Autumn1994Poetry
Ascension1988Poetry
August 61988Poetry
The Beloved1988Poetry
Christmas Voices1988Poetry Collection
In Proprio Voce1988Poetry
Iscariot1988Poetry
The Magdalene1988Poetry
Simon / Peter1988Poetry
For the Earth1985Poetry
Lightning Barbs1985Poetry
This Is My Body1985Poetry
The Father1982Poetry
Joseph's Christmas Eve1982Poetry
Mary Mother1982Poetry
Great Salt Lake1980Poetry
Poems of Praise: Poems in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints1980Poetry Collection
Sesquicentennial Hymn1980Poetry
And the Best Shall Go First1979Poetry
As If God1979Poetry
Awake at Four1979Poetry
Begging the Cumberland Question1979Poetry
Benign Tumor1979Poetry
Beyond Our Prayers1979Poetry
Biafra: On a Picture from Look1979Poetry
Black Hole1979Poetry
But Seldom, Love1979Poetry
Clark1979Poetry
"Dad"1979Poetry
Dinosaur World1979Poetry
Half for Love1979Poetry
Moods: Of Late1979Poetry Collection
Prayer for Meadow1979Poetry
Scansion1979Poetry
She Forgave1979Poetry
Sherri Cast in White1979Poetry
Some Couth1979Poetry
Timpanogos: Another Look1979Poetry
To An Apricot Unaccountably Blooming in February1979Poetry
To Light1979Poetry
To My Just-Married Daughter1979Poetry
Too Late on Father's Day1979Poetry
God's Plenty1978Poetry
Wasatch1978Poetry
Too Late on Father’s Day1977Poetry
Too Late on Father's Day1977Poetry
To Kevin: Newly a Missionary1976Poetry
In a Word : On Easter1974Poetry
Lines on a Line1974Poetry
Too Late On Mother's Day1974Poetry
To the Baby We Didn't Even Know We Weren't Going to Have1974Poetry
Astronomy1967Poetry
Sonnet: To Peace1967Poetry
Late on Father's Day1965Poetry
Sunset1964Poetry
Late on Mother's Day1962Poetry
About Language: Contexts for College Writers 1970Reference Work
[Review of] History as a Tool in Critical Interpretation1979Review
Garaged1984Short Story
Grandfather Clocks1984Short Story
Greenie-Sweet or Sons of Levi1984Short Story
Marooned; or, Morgan, Morgan, Fight, Fight!1984Short Story
Morgan Triumphs1984Short Story Collection
Much of a River1984Short Story
Oedipus Wrecks or Farewell to Morgan1984Short Story
Phoebe's Out1984Short Story
Spring Valley1984Short Story
Such Floods or Out in Time1984Short Story






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