Jimmy Santiago Baca
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American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honesty, the daily complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. This ex-convict, an essential voice in world poetry, chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the arrival of two of his children,...
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This picaresque novel by acclaimed writer Jimmy Santiago Baca follows Orlando Lucero after he is released from a lifetime of imprisonment, first in an orphanage and then in prison, and learns to live on the outside, ultimately finding his way as a writer and artist.
Author
Language
English
Description
American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honesty, the daily complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. This ex-convict, an essential voice in world poetry, chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the arrival of two of his children,...
4) The Face
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"Brimming with intolerable rapture, I almost killed myself many, many times. I wasn't trying to, my love for life just kept spilling me over boundaries into places from which some people don't come back. Hardly restricted by social convention, I hurt myself by being so rambunctious and romantic."
How much of our past does our face betray? What future fortune can you read in the lines and skin? What trace is left by other lips and fingers and fists?...