An Exodus of Sparks: Wheelbarrow Books
Autor Allisa Cherryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2025
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611865219
ISBN-10: 1611865212
Pagini: 102
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Wheelbarrow Books
Seria Wheelbarrow Books
ISBN-10: 1611865212
Pagini: 102
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Wheelbarrow Books
Seria Wheelbarrow Books
Recenzii
“Allisa Cherry's poems are more than sparks. They are flames. In this incredible collection, we are guided through a world of family, nature, love, and faith. It is not easy. The world is a violent place. But within Cherry’s deft lyric-narratives, we find we are not alone. This book is equal parts power, vulnerability, ecstaticism, and measure.” —Matthew Dickman, Author of Husbandry: Poems
“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
“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
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
This collection of lyrical poetry explores the violent evolution of identity, family, faith, and geography in the rural Southwest. It is composed of elegies; a fallible history; and most of all, a love letter to the family, culture, and geography that shaped the poet and her work.