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Exodus of Sparks

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Wheelbarrow Books
ISBN:
9781611865219
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
102
Authors:
Allisa Cherry
Published Date:
2025-01-01
Language:
English
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About Allisa Cherry

Raised in a rural Arizona town affected by nuclear testing, Allisa Cherry now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops for immigrants and refugees. Her collection An Exodus of Sparks (Michigan State University Press, 2025) won the 2024 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize from the RCAH Center for Poetry; the book is built around a crown of sonnets that relocates the story of Moses to the American Southwest. She was a finalist for the Sewanee Review poetry contest and the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, Rattle, and The Penn Review.

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