Jimmy Santiago Baca

Black Mesa Poems

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Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). Baca's evocation of this landscape, as City Paper noted, its aridity and fertility, is nothing short of brilliant. The individual poems of Black Mesa are embedded both in the family and in the community life of the barrio, detailing births and deaths, ne… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8112-2330-0
EAN: 9780811223300
Produktnummer: 34247507
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
Seitenangabe: 126 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 689 KB

Über den Autor

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1952. His parents abandoned him at the age of two, and he lived with his grandmother for several years before being placed in an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one for drug offenses. It was in prison that he learned to read and write and began to compose poetry. His book Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, a pair of long narrative poems, won an American Book Award in 1988. In addition to his poetry collections and stories, Baca wrote the screenplay for the movie Bound by Honor, which was released by Hollywood Pictures in 1993.