Interstitial archaeology /
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 id...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Wisconsin poetry series.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780299353445 0299353443 |