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An Exodus of Sparks / Allisa Cherry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherry, Allisa, author.
- Series:
- Wheelbarrow Books poetry series.
- Wheelbarrow Books poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--21st century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Genre:
- Poesie.
- Poetry.
- poetry.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Michigan : Wheelbarrow Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "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 (to downwinder-related cancer) and brother 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 speaker wrests her own power from her culture's sacred texts to revise her position in sight of patriarchal systems"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Salt River
- I.
- Unreadable
- Without Any Warning
- Revelations
- Still, Small Voice
- The 13th Article of Faith
- Family Violence in Five Acts
- Redemption Is Too Quiet
- Rolling over Fitfully
- Here I Take
- Slip
- Madonna of the Trail
- Mogollon Rim
- The Cold That Settles Lifts
- Bleached to Brightness
- Southeast of the Nevada Proving Ground
- Valley of Dry Bones
- Daughter of Downwinders
- Fatherland
- Sage: A Note to Self
- II.
- The Assumption of the Body of Moses
- The Mortification of the Body of Moses
- The Corruption of the Body of Moses
- The Radiance of the Body of Moses
- The Appropriation of the Body of Moses
- The Interment of the Body of Moses
- III.
- Depth of Field
- Moses, When Sleep Descends
- Bless the Damage
- Cuckoldry
- To God, the Guidance
- Hospitality
- Miriam Alone Is Punished
- The Vessel and the Emanation
- Entropy Grips the Garden
- Stigmata
- The Original Hyperlink Was the Word
- Forensic Ornithology
- Ghost Ship on the Desert Floor
- Exegesis
- Let a Double Portion of Your Spirit Be Upon Me
- A Life / Mislaid
- The Eros of Small Details
- Unsighted
- Your Spirit Might Rise Up and Go Before You
- An Exodus of Sparks
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Series Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609177751
- 1609177754
- OCLC:
- 1498932456
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