Interstitial Archaeology

Water permeates this stunning collection--ocean, lake, saliva, tears, sweat, blood--and the deeper Felicia Zamora excavates, the sheerer it becomes. Revisiting her childhood as a Latina living in poverty in the United States, Zamora explores racial trauma, estrangement from inherted culture and language, and the instinct to retreat into the body as a space of understanding. Grounded in the specificity of her history, her body, and her life, these poems find the universal threads that constellate hummingbirds to whales, Galapagos tortoises to Matt Groening cartoons, family photographs to joy and heartache, and an insistence on human connectivity.


Author: Felicia Zamora
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780299353445
ISBN10: 0299353443
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
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.