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An Exodus of Sparks

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Availability:In StockContributor:Allisa CherrySeries:Wheelbarrow BooksPublish date:2025-01-01Pages:102
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wheelbarrow BooksISBN-13:9781611865219ISBN-10:1611865212UPC:9781611865219Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCAE91B1XD
An Exodus of Sparks explores how violence reshapes family, geography, and faith. Predominantly set in the high desert, these poems explore the micro-losses of a father and brother (to downwinder-related cancer and substance abuse) against the macro-losses of a geography to nuclear testing and a tradition of faith to the ravages of grief. Liberally appropriating Judaic symbolism and wedding it to an inherited Mormon vocabulary and iconography, the poet/speaker wrests her power from her culture's sacred texts to revise her position in sight of patriarchal systems.
This collection is for anyone exploring how loss reshapes identity. The book is structured around a crown of sonnets in which the speaker assumes the story of Moses and resituates it in the American Southwest. The book itself is an elegy composed of several smaller elegies; a fallible history; and most of all, a love letter to the family, culture, and geography that shaped the poet and her work.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wheelbarrow BooksISBN-13:9781611865219ISBN-10:1611865212UPC:9781611865219Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCAE91B1XD
Allisa Cherry's poetry has appeared in over forty journals including TriQuarterly, The Penn Review, The Journal, the Baltimore Review, High Desert Journal, EcoTheo, and Rust + Moth. She has received several Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for both Sewanee Review's annual poetry contest and Persea Books' Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.

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