Jimmy Santiago Baca

Martín and Meditations on the South Valley: Poems

Buch

Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín & 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 he is far from being a naive realist; what makes his writing so exciting to me is the way in which it manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythic and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1032-4
EAN: 9780811210324
Produktnummer: 9328824
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
Seitenangabe: 104 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.0 cm 150 g
Gewicht: 150

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.