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    Jimmy Santiago Baca

    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.

    Jimmy Santiago Baca

    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.

    Books by Jimmy Santiago Baca

    • Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos

      Jimmy Santiago Baca, Tomás H. Lucero, Liz Fania Werner, Ilan Stavans

      Paperback, 2009

      “Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise...

    • Black Mesa Poems

      Jimmy Santiago Baca

      Paperback, 1990

      Black Mesa Poemsis 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

      Jimmy Santiago Baca

      E Book, 2013

      Black Mesa Poemsis 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).

    • Selected Poems/Poemas Selectos

      Jimmy Santiago Baca, Tomás H. Lucero, Liz Fania Werner, Ilan Stavans

      E Book, 2013

      “Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise...

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