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Javier Zamora is the author of\xa0Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and\xa0Solito, a memoir.\n\u201cThere 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.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@jzsalvipoet\n\njavierzamora.net\n\n03:00\xa0\u201cReading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds\u201d\xa0(Lit Hub \u2022 April 2019)\n\n18:00\xa0Krik? Krak!\xa0(Edwidge Danticat \u2022 Soho Press \u2022 2015)\n\n31:00\xa0franciscocantu.us\n\n\n37:00\xa0The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail\xa0(\xd3scar Mart\xednez \u2022 Verso Books \u2022 2013)\n\n42:00\xa0\u201cZamora: It\u2019s time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens\u201d\xa0(Los Angeles Times \u2022 July 2023)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices