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"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 revita…
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- Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Massimo Carlotto
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 176
- ISBN: 9780802192905
- ISBN-10: 0802192904
- ISBN-13: 9780802192905
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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"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 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, Massimo Carlotto
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 176
- ISBN: 9780802192905
- ISBN-10: 0802192904
- ISBN-13: 9780802192905
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
"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 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
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 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
Reviews