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, Andres 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.
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Claws Wide in the Mirror Meditations on Lines Chirality Lilacs Ghazal Containing My Estranged Mexican Tongue Meditations on Flesh Learned Intimacy Abecedarian for My Estranged Mexican Tongue Exhume Meditations on Ghosts Inscribing Anew Sonnets to Break the Crown of Invisibility Leaving Halves Poem about Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard To Haunt Air: In Consideration of Longing, the Potoo, Desire, Gallstones, & What We Remain Still For Tautology of Phrases, Tautology of Mathematical Logic in a Time of Climate Crisis Taut Logic of Crisis Errata Triptych of Understanding Law as a Human-Made Construct with Fundamental & Detrimental Errors Excavation In the Cellular A Sharp Dawn Interstitial Archaeology: Make My Mouth a Temple Now, without the Severing of Life or Organ to Unhaunt the Silences Lorde Warns Us About Moratorium To Put Meat Back Hawk Hymn Used to Be Monster Talk Tempest in the Cerebellum Mars Exploration: Poem for Diana Trujillo & the Work of Wonder How Fire Works: A Fourth of July Consideration Monopoly Neuron Fire: Or I Want Brown & Black & Queer Joy to Be Ubiquitous: Or What We're Made of Connects Us, Fuck: Or I Am Writing This Poem when I Should Be Out Protesting so This Poem Is a Protest Instead The Bird Chris Martin Sings Shiver & I Shiver: A Poem for Madam Vice President Acknowledgments Notes
"Interstitial Archaeology is all-consuming. It's a marvel. Sometimes, a poetry collection feels like inhabiting the vast and intricate estate of a person's imagination, as if entering a cathedral, where the saints, captured in stained glass, are the chalk-outlined martyrs haunting our newsfeeds. Felicia Zamora incorporates all knowledge: math, myth, and memory, from Emerson to Audre Lorde. The poetic forms included here are like a collection of fragments from a lost city. This book is impossibly good. These poems are both grounded and otherworldly. Prepare yourself. Eat a big breakfast and pack a lunch. This book is a journey." - Amaud Jamaul Johnson