{"title":"Felicia Zamora","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"instrument-of-gaps","title":"Instrument of Gaps","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo quote Carmen Gimenez Smith, \"\u003cem\u003eIn Instrument of Gaps\u003c\/em\u003e, Felicia Zamora opens new windows into the idea of the speaker in poems of passion, of prayer, and of hope. In her work, 'to believe in combustion we must believe in embers,' and she brings this to bear in a history of capturing life inside memory. Zamora marries a sharp diction with a transcendental power to enact the dynamic interplay between what is inside and what is outside the lyric in this thrilling third collection from Zamora.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFelicia Zamora\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the poetry books \u003cem\u003eOf Form \u0026amp; Gather\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press) and\u003cem\u003e \u0026amp; in Open, Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e (Parlor Press).\u003cem\u003e Of Form \u0026amp; Gather\u003c\/em\u003e was listed as one of the \"9 Outstanding Latino Books Recently Published by Independent and University Presses\" by NBC News. She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, authored two chapbooks, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate for Fort Collins, CO. Her published works may be found or forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eAcademy of American Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (Poem-A-Day),\u003cem\u003e Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, jubilat, Lana Turner, North American Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, The Nation, TriQuarterly Review, Verse Daily, Witness Magazine, West Branch\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. She is the Associate Poetry Editor for the \u003cem\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/em\u003e, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University, and is the Education Programs Manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, AZ with her partner Chris and their two dogs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slope Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48224606486845,"sku":"9780988522169","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9780988522169ita.jpg?v=1712076263"},{"product_id":"murmuration-archives-1","title":"Murmuration Archives","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her bold new collection, \u003ci\u003eMurmuration Archives\u003c\/i\u003e, Felicia Zamora traverses overlapping orbits of an ancient Mesoamerican codex, lineage, and her stage two breast cancer treatment. \"Desire brought me here,\" the voice confesses while studying the Codex Yoalli Ehēcatl, one of the only pre Columbian texts to survive the Spanish colonization of Mexico. Through interactions with the Codex, Zamora's \"undulations\" emerge— preverbal, more-than-verbal, urges and responses to the document, while also undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Spanning Chichén Itzá to the Vatican Apostolic Library, to the Popol Vuh, to the exam room, to the Tōnalpōhualli, to the infusion center, to Xibalbá, these poems attune to the ancestral, ontological, anatomical, and environmental gaps left in the wake of violence, to create imaginative bridges of homecoming, belonging, and futurity that wormhole centuries together in a present pulse. Zamora's poetry reminds us that the body is the first archive, as she melds the rawness of cancer with the empowerment of finding the self in the voices of the ancestors. Docupoems reveal the body as a site of channeling, site of liberation, and site of occupancy where ruins, joy, lineage, illegibility, grief, and disease live restlessly intertwined. \"Reminders how the body sings despite.\" \u003ci\u003eMurmuration Archives\u003c\/i\u003e is a love poem todescendants of ancient Mesoamerica and cancer survivors—illuminating the primordial collective inside each of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noemi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51666136564029,"sku":"9781955992718","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781955992718ita_20b49dfd-4b4b-40d1-b86c-766ca72c7f72.jpg?v=1777912064"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/felicia-zamora.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}