Sara Fetherolf's debut poetry collection, VIA COMBUSTA, won the 2021 New American Poetry Prize, selected by Amy Quan Barry. "Every poem in Sara Fetherolf 's...

Sara Fetherolf's debut poetry collection, VIA COMBUSTA, won the 2021 New American Poetry Prize, selected by Amy Quan Barry. "Every poem in Sara Fetherolf 's incantatory debut collection Via Combusta is a keeper," says Barry. "Here is a hard-won wisdom, tempered by both pain and truth, and distilled from a life spent 'jumping from cage to cage' in search of home. 'I left day-old loaves at crossroads on the new moon, praying hard for an out, an ending, for uncross me uncross me uncross me-' Ultimately the magic Fetherolf unearths is the simple everyday resilience of the human soul, 'to not flinch when [the monster] looks you in the eye.' Via Combusta charms as it testifies."