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Singing at the gates: selected poems

✍ Scribed by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Grove Press
Year
2013;2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
184 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802192904

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✦ Synopsis

Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca, a vital voice in American poetry, weaves personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative infused with vigor and passion, emotional grace and vivid sensory detail. Singing At The Gates is a collection of new and previously published poems that reflect back over four decades of Baca's life. These are poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes his early work as a budding poet, written while serving a five-year prison sentence; poems drawn from Baca's first chapbook; and recent pieces meditating on the significance of breaking through oppression.
Singing at the Gates displays the breadth and depth of Baca's poetic power--with irreverent charm and disarming freedom of mind and soul. The vital pulse of...

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