Presented to: Clinton F. Larson
For: The Western World
Judges called this collection "the present and doubtless temporary culmination of Clinton Larson's poetic effort; a case of vintage Larson, with all the traits that baffle, irritate, delight, and enlarge his readers." The award also acknowledged his "long and gigantically productive" writing career "which has made him a huge, potent paternal presence on the imaginative horizons of younger Mormon writers."