"Entering the wholly original lexicon of Felicia Zamora's poems is migrating into a body made of raw wonder and grit. She is a fiercely courageous poet, alchemizing words into new meanings, constellating ecologies with the violences of her childhood, & writing with all her force against the cruel wars of hegemony. This book is a gift--a call to speak truth, to keep excavating our own humanity, 'knees in loose soil, knuckles in earth.'"--Emma Trelles

"Zamora is a visionary poet fully engaged with her epoch, a master storyteller of grace and imaginative ambition. As she writes, 'We are the epitome of impossible doing the possible. Our bodies have prepared for us. Poetry begins in the cellular.' These poems rearrange how we know the body and memory with a seamless poetic agility. This book will change you. Gorgeous, captivating language. One of the finest books I've read in years."--Lee Herrick

"Offers powerful and disquieting vignettes exploring racism, language, and the body. . . . Anatomical and ecological metaphors, bleak sociopolitical realities, and confessional reverie are bolstered through strategic use of white space, erasure, and repetition. Palpable and urgent, these potent poems revel in defiance, catharsis, and wonder."-- "Publishers Weekly"

"In repetition and in form, the poems (sometimes essayistic and braiding) are anxious for belief."-- "Poetry Northwest"

"[A] forceful new collection. . . . The work of a master deploying all of her tools. . . . Readers who delight in hard questions and the spaciousness of ideas and have a sense of social responsibility will find these poems urgent and rousing."-- "Booklist"