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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 Baca is a dynamic member of the growing tribe of Chicano poets who take the Chicano as their subject matter and material from the Chicano experience. He multiplies the difficulty of his task by using a form dormant now, the long, semiautobiographical, contemplative poem.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

The first section deals with a dispossessed man who returns home to sink roots and to found a family. The second, akin to character sketches or prose cuentos, tells stories freighted with cultural significance. The result in this extremely articulate work is a powerful sociological, semipoetic document revealing the poignant history of one totemic Chicano in and out of his own territory canton , his hopes and fears, his strengths and vulnerabilities, his external defeats, and his self-fulfilling successes.

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Lessons for a Child Who Arrives Late. And They Called It Horizon. Days of Plenty, Days of Want. Salmos from South Bethlehem. Out in the All of It.

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Come scrivere un'ottima recensione. This is haunting, redemptive, powerful, and meaningful in a larger political context. Nov 05, Tiffany Cusick-Bristol rated it it was amazing. This was a very enjoyable book, and I wish more authors attempted to write in this poetic manner. It was an easy read, yet insightful and beautiful. The language was so descriptive, it sometimes shocked and other times awed me.

The story is just humbling. I don't want to be a spoiler so I am going to leave my review at that. I look forward to reading other similar works. Apr 26, Jason rated it really liked it Shelves: While I was in school in Oregon we watched a video of this author reading his poetry. It was about the need for men to cry, which doesn't strike me now as anything to write home about. But I did write home, that very day, and told my Ma: Jun 13, Craig Werner rated it really liked it Shelves: Two interrelated books of narrative poetry.

The second, good but not on quiet the same level, picks up the protagonist following the burning of the house he'd built as symbol of his rebuilt life--mostly a gallery of portraits of life in the Southwest. Both excellent, Martin absolutely essential. Aug 15, Philip rated it really liked it. This book lives like a leafed box of live cultured bacteria on the pages which Jimmy has preciously penned his existence. He's a survivor, a poet, a man and a testament that people do at times transcend beyond their abandonment. These words are alive and are viewable for the reader looking to witness the poetic testimony of one writing force named Jimmy Santiago Baca.

Mar 16, Julia rated it liked it Shelves: Aug 23, Phillip rated it it was amazing Shelves: One of my favorite collections of wholly unique poetry. It really captures the southwest, the poverty, the aimlessness, and the transcendent possibilities of existence - unlikely bedfellows, to be sure, but that's why the book is so awesome Jun 27, Ashley rated it it was amazing.