Jimmy Santiago Baca: 17 books

Book cover of When I Walk Through That Door, I Am

When I Walk Through That Door, I Am

An Immigrant Mother's Quest

by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain...
Book cover of A Place to Stand
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

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...
Book cover of Martín and Meditations on the South Valley: Poems
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1987

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...
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