Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Winter poems along the Rio Grande.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)Beschta, JamesKliatt
Jimmy Santiago Baaca's Coming Into Language While being held in prison for the first time, Baca discovered the beauty of poetry; “my sense of teetering on a rotting plank over swamp water where famish alligators clapped their horny snouts for my blood. While I listened to the words of the...
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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 ...
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 ...