En Santiago del siglo XIX (Chile), en 1850, proveniente de una familia del norte de Chile (en Copiapó), un joven muy talentoso de buena apariencia, caída en desgracia económicamente, llamado Martín Rivas, es hospedado por los Encina, una familia principal creme de la creme de la clase alta capitalin
Martín and Meditations on the South Valley
✍ Scribed by Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 2013;1987
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 89 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Mart in & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or "detribalized Apache."
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Mart in & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or "detribalized Apache."Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Mart in & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or "detribalized Apache." Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in the stubborn and beautiful world of the barrio. Jimmy Santiago Baca "writes with unconcealed passion," Denise Levertov states in her introduction, "but he is far from being a naive realist; what makes his writing so exciting to me is the way in which it manifests both an intense...
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