Down Their Spears is a Latter-Day Saint cosmogony. Each of the poem's nine sections is told by a different speaker in a different place at a different time, from sixth century BCE India to nineteenth century Illinois, and each speaker offers a different part of the myth that weaves religious, historical, and mystical characters, scenes, and ideals to tell the story of the history of the universe through a novel, Mormon perspective.
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Jared Pearce
Jared Pearce’s poems have been shared in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia, and India, online and in print. The Annotated Murder of One, his first poetry collection, was published in 2018. He lives and writes in Iowa, United States.