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Unaccompanied Paperback – September 5, 2017

by Javier Zamora (Author)
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New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito

"Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May

"Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova

Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind.

Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun."

From "Let Me Try Again":

He knew we weren't Mexican.
He must've remembered his family
coming over the border, or the border
coming over them, because he drove us
to the border and told us next time, rest
at least five days, don't trust anyone calling
themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines,
Alhambra. He knew we would try again.
And again—like everyone does.

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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  4. Publication date
    September 5, 2017
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1556595115
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1556595110
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Javier Zamora: Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley and an MFA at New York University and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Copper Canyon Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2017
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 88 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1556595115
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1556595110
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #328,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 284 ratings

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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.

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Customers appreciate the poetry in the book, describing it as meaningful and well written, with one customer noting how it conveys experiences on a feeling level.

"...his parents in the U.S. This book of poems really conveys his experiences on a feeling level. Just amazing." Read more

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"The book is wonderful I love how the author wrote in poetry form my mother enjoys to read so she saw his story on TV and so I got her the book....." Read more

"Such a well written account of an incredible story. Javier writes it in such a way that you truly understand the situation and the insanity." Read more

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"This book of poetry by Javier Zamora is amazing on its own; but to have it accompany his journey depicted in his memoir, "Solito", makes it all the..." Read more

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  • Phil Moser
    5.0 out of 5 stars Javier Zamora's set of poems that parallel his stunning memoir, "Solito"
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2024
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    This book of poetry by Javier Zamora is amazing on its own; but to have it accompany his journey depicted in his memoir, "Solito", makes it all the more meaningful and powerful. Javier's story is of how, at age 9, he spent two months unaccompained -- "solito" ("alone") -- traveling from El Salvador to the United States in the company of various "coyotes" and other traveling companions in order to reunite with his parents in the U.S. This book of poems really conveys his experiences on a feeling level. Just amazing.
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  • Glen Peterson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry on a pilgrimage toward justice
    Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2024
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    I first read these poems in 2017 (or about when it came out). I re-read it after reading Solito and hearing Javier Zamoro speak and read some poetry. The Words had more impact after learning more about the author’s life experience. The life of mister Zamora demonstrates the resiliance of human kind in a world looking for justice.
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  • Daley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Review
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
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    The book is wonderful I love how the author wrote in poetry form my mother enjoys to read so she saw his story on TV and so I got her the book.. truly inspiring
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  • alba
    4.0 out of 5 stars ENGAGING READ
    Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2020
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    IDK WHY I AM GIVING IT A 4 BUT ITS DEFINITELY NOT A 5 ...ENJOYED READING IT THOUGH
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  • Valda taylor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2023
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    It explain all the detail so kids can choose the right path in their lives
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  • Jacqueline M. Cipriano
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible story
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022
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    Such a well written account of an incredible story. Javier writes it in such a way that you truly understand the situation and the insanity.
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  • Prison Librarian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, Mystical, Meaningful poetry
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019
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    Anyone wishing to increase their empathy for migrants from Mexico, you must own this slender book of poems. Each power is infused with symbolism within the grasp of understanding. Reading these poems it was like the poet was beside me gripping my shoulder and whispering into my ear, "Do you understand? Can you hear your heart beating with us?"
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  • Kindle Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars I Wasn't Sure what I was reading
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2023
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    Didn't know this book was poetry and just wasn't caught up in his words and emotions. Wish I could have loved it but I didn't..
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