Presents an interview with American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. He was born in 1952 in New Mexico to a Chicano mother and an Apache Indian father. After his father died of alcoholism and his mother moved to California, he found himself first living with his grandparents and then deposited in ...
THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Jimmy Santiago BacaInterviews poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. Description of his book 'C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans'; Sources of his inspiration to write poetry; Views on war against Iraq; Criticism...
Features an interview with Jimmy Santiago Baca, on the subject of poetry. Book of essays 'Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio'; Early development as a poet; Reading of poems to convicts; Function of language in poetry; Works 'Immigrant in Our Own Land?'; Society ...