Interstitial Archaeology

Auteur

Felicia Zamora is the author of six books of poetry, including Quotient; I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; Body of Render, Benjamin Saltman Award winner; and Of Form & Gather, Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner. She won the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize from the Georgia Review, a Tin House Next Book Residency, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and a poetry editor for the Colorado Review.

Texte du rabat

"Life becomes a form of excavation in Felicia Zamora's newest poetry collection, Interstitial Archaeology, as gaps in lineage and the compounding intersections of borders (linguistic, physical, familial, societal, liminal, and psychological borders) manifest in fractals of memory, becoming, and identity. Zamora explores racial trauma, growing up Mexican and in poverty in the United States, childhood trauma, estrangement from inherited culture and language, false memory, the political as private, and the instinct to retreat into the body as a space of understanding. Zamora's speaker dialogues with activists, scholars, and fellow poets throughout history to express the entanglement of social and environmental justice where the poem becomes the space to constellate radical imagination"--