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Allisa Cherry - Exodus of Sparks, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Exodus of Sparks

Av Allisa Cherry

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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.
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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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“Cherry’s riveting poems are lifted by stunning paradoxes and striking juxtapositions: the biblical and the contemporary, the textual and the lived moment, the mystery of the body’s desires and Sunday school lectures on chastity. So too, remarkably, An Exodus of Sparks balances lyrical grace and gritty realism, heartbreaking tenderness, and shocking familial violence. Cherry chronicles the disorienting aftermath that follows the loss of a father, a brother, and a stranger struck by an SUV. Along the way, this perceptive poet peels back the surface to reveal the buzzing strangeness beneath each quotidian encounter. In one elegantly crafted poem after another, this wonderful book awakens us from our habituation.” —Yehoshua November, author of The Concealment of Endless Light

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