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Selected Poems of Jimmy Santiago Baca

✍ Scribed by Baca, Jimmy Santiago

Book ID: 109854169
Publisher: New Directions
Year: 2013
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 408 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780811223331

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✦ Synopsis

"Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events."--Denise LevertovChampion of the International Poetry Slam, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious International Award, Jimmy Santiago Baca has been writing as a mestizo (part Native American, part Mexican) and an outsider ever since he learned to read and write--in English--during a six-year Federal prison sentence when he was in his twenties. Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley.

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