Description
“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 Levertov
Champion of the International Poetry Slam, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious International Award, Jimmy Santiago Baca has been writing as a mestizo (part Native American, part Mexican) and an outsider ever since he learned to read and write—in English—during a six-year Federal prison sentence when he was in his twenties. Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley.
In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes Martín and Mediations on the South Valley (1987), Black Mesa Poems (1989), Immigrants in Our Own Land (1990), Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007).
In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes Martín and Mediations on the South Valley (1987), Black Mesa Poems (1989), Immigrants in Our Own Land (1990), Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007).
Also By: Jimmy Santiago Baca 
Black Mesa Poems
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).Black Mesa Poems
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).
Also By: Ilan Stavans
Lazarillo de Tormes: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, E Book, 2021
Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.
Quixote: The Novel and the World
Paperback, 2017
An innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the world.
Lazarillo de Tormes: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 2016
Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel.
Quixote: The Novel and the World
E Book, 2015
An innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the world.
Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 2012
This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America.
