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Body of Render

by Felicia Zamora
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Body of Render explores the internal and external impacts on our humanity when political, national, and societal decisions strip away our basic human rights. What does it mean to be an underrepresented individual in a country where the most powerful seat in the land unashamedly perpetuates racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and classist behaviors? The voices document a journey before and after the last presidential election. These poems cry out for reconsideration of our broken systems to find common and safe ground rooted in equitable treatment of each other as human beings. How do we exude love when being a person of color or underrepresented person in this country means the dominate white-male-able-bodied-heterosexual narrative continues to threaten our voices? This collection carves at the physical, the political, the intimate, and the structural with poems that simultaneously create and encourage voice to seek a path toward collective mending.

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    April 21, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781597098106

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      • ISBN: 9781597098106
      • File size: 585 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      March 12, 2021
      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. She succeeds, as in ""The retreat"": "here, in space with strangers, your / mind chants I am enough, I am enough, enough, enough." Zamora writes of people of color and men and women caught up and surrounded while protesting for their rights. Zamora braves through her struggle to reason out the madness of our time. ""If starlight be"" is a bucolic four-part song in which phrases and moods are repeated throughout a call for justice, which concludes with "officials wipe your name, use your / trachea, your tongue to speak, least you begin to forget." Readers will not.

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