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Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems is a new, expanded edition of Jimmy Santiago Baca's best-selling first book of poetry (originally pu...
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of MartĂn & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, ...
A collection of poems that grows out of the American Southwest focusing on family and community life of the barrio sharing births and deaths, neighbor...
The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal ad...
New poetry by the Champion of the International Poetry Slam and winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage...
Selected Poems
Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca, a vital voice in American poetry, weaves personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant n...
Poems
An award-winning collection of poems that vividly capture the astonishing emotional range of an entire romance from beginning to end. Jimmy Santiago B...
“There’s no way you can do this reentry thing,” Orlando Lucero tells himself after getting out of prison. He has spent most of his life institut...
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In Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grand...
Breaking Bread with the Darkness II
American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of ...
The award-winning poet and author of A Place to Stand crafts provocative portraits of addiction and the Mexican American experience. Jimmy Santiago Ba...
Breaking Bread with the Darkness I
In this beautiful, boisterous account, by turns soul-searching and erotic, acclaimed Chicano and Native-American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca reveals the ...
Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio
A Lakota Sioux writer details in fictional form the impact of the gun, introduced in 1750, on his people's culture....
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Mart�n & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin,...
An Immigrant Mother's Quest
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family s...
“Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and a...
Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two literacy professionals to present a teaching tool that includes...
Stories
“In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s haunting story collection, intricate family dramas . . . play out against the luminous, wide-open backdrop of New Mexico...
The Making of a Poet
In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in ...
Three poetic statements unite and intertwine in this slim volume to create a rare insight into the lives of people who bear witness to the exclusionar...
"A reflection on — and a reckoning of — self by acclaimed poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca. The new collection of essays picks up where Baca's ...
An extraordinary collection of poetry that takes the reader from the depths of despair, through outrage, to transcendent joy. In these searingly inten...
"Accompanying grades 6-12 teacher's book, "Adolescents on the edge" and to be used in classrooms in conjunction with this volume for students."...
Stories and Lessons to Transform Learning
Fusing Jimmy Santiago Baca's talents as a writer of memoir with ReLeah Cossett Lent's expertise in building and empowering collaborative learning comm...
He wakes from his afternoon siesta, / flapping legs and hands, / a bluebird perched on the birch/ branch of mother's arm/ ready to raid/ cornfields/ i...
Poetry in the Pandemic
Poetry. Edited by Jeffrey Levine and Kristina Marie Darling. In this timely anthology, established and emerging poets bear powerful witness to the COV...
An internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been honored with inclusion in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, James Drake has e...