There is a jagged urgency to award-winning and CantoMundo Fellow Zamor’s sixth book. The opening section, “At the Hand of Other,” consists of 30 one-stanza poems that each lean toward memory and immediacy while the poet seeks balance within a staggering sense of loss. “Poem to America” reads: “oh / society oh; what you cull, piece by piece; what / you strip; what grows back only in time.” Zamora doesn’t mince words in this frank collection of political verse meant to speak for the voiceless.
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