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Of Form & Gather
Of Form & Gather marks the dazzling debut of Felicia Zamora, whose poems concern themselves with probing questions, not facile answers. Where does the self reside? What forms do we, as human beings, inhabit as we experience the world around us? Echoing the collection’s provocative title, final judge Edwin Torres writes: “Zamora has crafted a work that celebrates form as human evolution—the poem’s breath, the poet’s body—passing over time in a landscape thirsty for passage.” Privileging journey over destination, Zamora’s poems spur the reader to immerse herself in linguistic soundscapes where the physicality of the poems themselves is, in no small part, the point: poems that challenge us to navigate the word/world as both humans and things. Edwin Torres continues: “This is quietly revolutionary work. . . . A living palimpsest to newly awaken our social engagement." With the publication of this volume, the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, now in its seventh edition, emphatically makes good on its aim to nurture the various paths that Latino/a poetry is taking in the twenty-first century.
I Always Carry My Bones
"Home is a complex ideation for many POC and migrant peoples. I Always Carry My Bones explores how familial history echoes inside a person and the ghosts of lineage dwell in a body. Sometimes we haunt. Sometimes we are the haunted. Pierced by an estranged relationship to Mexican culture, the ethereal ache of an unknown father, the weight of racism and poverty in this country, the indentations of abuse, and a mind/physicality affected by doubt, these poems root in the search for belonging-a belonging inside and outside the flesh. Space-making requires a clawing at the atrocities of today's social injustices. Space-making requires a dismantling of violent systems against brown and black bodies...
Quotient
"QUOTIENT is a celebration of codes that make up our world: DNA, language, geometry, Fibonacci, song, rhizomes, the "lovely legerdemain" and arithmetic of the body. 'Do you remember / in radiolarian, the images / etched in microscopic minerals? / Once you were a butterfly,' Zamora muses; reminding us of the beauty in pattern, how each coil builds upon the next, how each mathematical sequence of our existence is a kind of quotidian magic; her poems act as microscopes fitted to the eye of the reader. A book of revelations, QUOTIENT looks past death, destruction, grief--focuses instead on the miraculous echo of tree rings, "& loss / is loss no more"--with an intensity and tenderness that catch like a sob of joy in the throat."--Deborah Miranda, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir and Alter for Broken Things Poetry.
& in Open, Marvel
& in Open, Marvel grapples with wonder in everyday existence. A sense of quietness through seasonal change threads the interlaced contemplations in the collection, which approach the twice-removed space we occupy from the physical world. The act of mind and body is experienced as a journey for both writer and reader. How we are all elements in fall. How we are all purpose. How what makes us connects us. How there are lovely works beyond us, which in turn, include us. How we plead to ourselves, See . . . just see.
Body of Render
Body of Render explores the internal and external impacts of societal and national decisions that strip away our basic human rights through a collection of poems that carve at the physical, the political, the intimate, and the structural, where poems simultaneously create and encourage voice to seek a path toward collective mending.
& in Open, Marvel
Poems in & in Open, Marvel deeply attach to the seasons and cycles of life and question how to ingest the world as a natural being, and how we are, at times, displaced in our own humanity.
Instrument of Gaps
Poetry. Our intricate thinking and our ability to process the world deeply connect us as human beings. Yet we conjure inhibitors to limit our interactions with each other such as race, class, species, landscape, and limitations of understanding. Despite the barriers we construct, we are relative to each other. INSTRUMENT OF GAPS explores these intersections of humanity's innocence, curiosities, influences, impact on environments, and how we all carried along by other. In relentless acknowledgement of the gaps that exist in the mind, in society, in language, on the page, and in our natural behaviors, the poems work to uncover new ways of thinking for both writer and reader. The poems move flu...
Moby Dick Made Me Do it
"To the wounded text that is Moby Dick Felicia Zamora adds her own woundedness, the necessary poetric urge not only to say "I am I am" in echo and affirmation, but also "to open the opened" which keeps the wound a wound. Such poems offer us their vulnerable thinking by refusing th make an end of their crisis. Instead, we here find poems in which life is its own whaling voyage, filled with wonder and difficulty, seeking not destination, but realization and experience, that open ocean in which wonder and difficulty almost merge, almost become one --Dan Beachy-Quick"--Http://flatcappublishing.com/catalog/mobydick/ (as viewed on 10/27/2010).Collection of poems by Fort Collins, Colorado poet Felicia Zamora. The collection addresses the themes and features of Herman Melville's masterwork. The book is printed letterpress from hand-set type, recalling the printing of Melville's day and bringing the two Moby Dick books into physical as well as thematic conversation. The collection is illustrated by two wood engravings. representing the way and the stingray.
Dear Diaspora
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The Fire Eater
Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems in Jose Hernandez Diaz’s masterful debut chapbook introduce us to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt, all of whom explore their inner selves in Hernandez Diaz’s startling and spare style. With nods to Russell Edson and the surrealists, Hernandez Diaz explores the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary occurrences of life, set against the backdrop of the moon, and the poet’s native Los Angeles. The TRP Chapbook Series
