Episode 546: Javier Zamora

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Javier Zamora is the author of Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and Solito, a memoir. “There was something that I felt eating away at me, which made me a very angry and volatile teenager. And I think I was an angry teenager because I had this trauma that nobody around me could talk about, and that I didn't have the right therapist to help me unpack. So the cheapest thing that I had was poetry.” Show notes: @jzsalvipoet javierzamora.net 03:00 “Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds” (Lit Hub • April 2019) 18:00 Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat • Soho Press • 2015) 31:00 franciscocantu.us 37:00 The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Óscar Martínez • Verso Books • 2013) 42:00 “Zamora: It’s time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens” (Los Angeles Times • July 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.0	Hi, you guys.
0:46.0	Evan, who's on the program, my friend?
0:48.2	This week, I got a chance to talk to Javier Zamora.
0:51.6	Javier is a poet and writer.
0:54.8	He's based in Arizona now, but he was born in El Salvador when he was one year old.
1:01.2	His father fled El Salvador to the United States because of the U.S. funded Salvador in
1:06.1	Civil War.
1:07.6	His mother followed when Javier was about to turn five years old.
1:11.6	He lived as grandparents there, and then he migrated to the U.S. when he was nine years
1:16.3	old, unaccompanied by any family or friends that he knew.
1:21.0	I tell you all this because he wrote a best-selling memoir about his journey to the United
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