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Javier Zamora

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Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents' migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. ...more

Average rating: 4.47 · 77,077 ratings · 10,061 reviews · 10 distinct worksSimilar authors
Solito

4.48 avg rating — 75,342 ratings — published 2022 — 43 editions
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Unaccompanied

4.20 avg rating — 1,402 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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Ink Knows No Borders: Poems...

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The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4:...

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Resistencia: Poems of Prote...

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Nueve Años Inmigrantes: Nin...

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“Mom likes to call them my "angels," but I worry that takes away their humanity and their nonreligious capacity for love and compassion they showed a stranger.”
Javier Zamora, Solito

“I never found out what happened to Chele, or to any of the countless others who were with me. I fear they died in the Sonoran Desert. This book is for them and for every immigrant who has crossed, who has tried to, who is crossing right now, and who will keep trying.”
Javier Zamora, Solito

“It wasn't until I began to see my own trauma as a creation myth that I could truthfully begin to heal. A myth is only a myth after all. It is not set in stone. It was truth, but shouldn't be truth forever...The myth can change.”
Javier Zamora

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