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(0)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.
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English
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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,...
4) The Face
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English
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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?...
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“In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s haunting story collection, intricate family dramas . . . play out against the luminous, wide-open backdrop of New Mexico.” —Los Angeles Times
In his first foray into short fiction, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the territory where old-world traditions meet new-world ambitions, and characters try to make something of themselves,...
In his first foray into short fiction, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the territory where old-world traditions meet new-world ambitions, and characters try to make something of themselves,...
10) A glass of water
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215 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Two Mexican-American brothers--Lorenzo, who becomes a farmer, and Vito, who gains fame as a boxer--take different paths in life after the brutal murder of their mother, only to have their journeys converge and bring them face-to-face with a common enemy.
11) Black Mesa poems
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New Directions paperbook volume 676
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126 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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New Directions paperbook volume 1142
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xv, 285 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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A bilingual collection of the works of the award-winning Chicano poet features poems that draw on the author's experiences as a father and a prisoner and on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande Valley.
Eta primera selección bilingüe presenta lo mejor de su poesía al lado de traducciones al español hechas especialmente para este volumen. Se trata de un juego encantador de idiomas que revolotea con sus experiencias como poeta...
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The story of Jimmy Santiago Baca, "winner of the Pushcart Prize and the American Book Award, ... called an heir to Pablo Neruda, ... [who] at the age of twenty-one ... was illiterate and facing five to ten years in a maximum-security prison for selling drugs."--Jacket.
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74 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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"Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: "I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts," she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him."--Back cover.
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192 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"A reflection on -- and a reckoning of -- self by acclaimed poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca. The new collection of essays picks up where Baca's earlier celebrated books, Working in the Dark, left off. It is the writer's first attempt to revisit the past twenty years with a renewed heart and wizened spirit as he shares his experiences, the tough lessons he has learned, and how his views have changed. No topic is off the table as Baca delves deep...