Immigrants In Our Own Land Selected Early Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811211452

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Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

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 published by Louisiana State University Press in 1979). A number of poems from early, now unavailable chapbooks have also been included so that the reader can at last have an overview of Baca's remarkable literary development. The voice of Immigrants will be familiar to readers of the widely praised Martín & Meditations on the South Valley and Black Mesa Poems (New Directions, 1987 and 1989), but the territory may not be. Most of the poems in this collection were written while the author was in prison, where he taught himself to read and write. All the poems are concerned with the incarcerated or the disenfranchised; they all communicate the sting from the backhand of the American promise. As Denise Levertov has noted, Baca "is far from being a naive realist," but of poverty and prejudice, of material that is truly raw, he "writes in unconcealed passion."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1627651462

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Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783784619

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Immigrants in Our Own Land by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807105724

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Immigrants in Our Own Land by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403334052

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Immigrants in our own land by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802192905

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Singing at the Gates by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

“This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious...righteous and prayerful” (Booklist). Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. “A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555848903

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A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987-10-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811223324

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Martín and Meditations on the South Valley: Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

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." 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 archetypal significance of life-events."

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811216853

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Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and the natural world are revealed, chronicling and expanding upon those in his recent Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande. In Spring Poems the words of the river "rise around thorny thickets / then descend again into the burbling stubble," and the poet surrenders himself to this place where his own words are woven by "a thumbnail-sized yellow spider/ with poppy seed eyes."--Amazon.com.

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811223300

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Black Mesa Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

Black Mesa Poems is 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 is 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). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," as City Paper noted, "its aridity and fertility, is nothing short of brilliant." The individual poems of Black Mesa are embedded both in the family and in the community life of the barrio, detailing births and deaths, neighbors and seasons, injustices and victories. Loosely interconnected, the poems trace a visionary biography of place.

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081121575X

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Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande by Jimmy Santiago Baca Pdf

New poetry by the Champion of the International Poetry Slam and winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious new International Award.

Author : Patrice Vecchione,Alyssa Raymond
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781609809089

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Ink Knows No Borders by Patrice Vecchione,Alyssa Raymond Pdf

A poetry collection for young adults brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of teen immigrants and refugees. With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Bao Phi, Kaveh Akbar, Hala Alyan, and Ada Limón, among others, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination. Many of the struggles immigrant and refugee teens face head-on are also experienced by young people everywhere as they contend with isolation, self-doubt, confusion, and emotional dislocation. Ink Knows No Borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet Javier Zamora, who crossed the border, unaccompanied, at the age of nine, and an afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud, World Poetry Slam Champion and Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Brief biographies of the poets are included, as well. It's a hopeful, beautiful, and meaningful book for any reader.

Author : Javier Zamora
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321779

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Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora Pdf

New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108481328

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The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature by Crystal Parikh Pdf

This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256

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The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton Pdf

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.