Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems

Baca, Jimmy Santiago

ISBN 10: 0811211452 / ISBN 13: 9780811211451

Published by A New Directions Book,, New York, 1990

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Sixth Printing. Signed by author. BRAND NEW. Seller Inventory # 005885

Bibliographic Details

Title: Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early ...

Publisher: A New Directions Book,, New York

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

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.