Jimmy Santiago Baca
Author
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Description
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martin & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in the stubborn and beautiful world of the barrio. Jimmy Santiago Baca 'writes with unconcealed passion, ' Denise Levertov states in her introduction, 'but...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[1993?]
Description
Three cousins raised as brothers are torn apart, forcing them to follow separate paths. One searches for truth in the law. One expresses his passion through art. And, one finds power in prison. Yet through it all, family and honor keep their lives intertwined as each strives for survival and power.