A place to stand
the making of a poet
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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"Jimmy Santiago Baca, winner of the Pushcart Prize and the American Book Award, has been called an heir to Pablo Neruda and one the best poets in America today. At the age of twenty-one, however, he was illiterate and facing five to ten years in a maximum-security prison for selling drugs. Five years later he emerged from prison with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry.
A Place to Stand is his memoir of childhood on small farms in New Mexico, his adolescence spent in orphanages and detention centers, his years as a drug dealer in San Diego and Arizona, and his extraordinary personal transformation under harrowing conditions behind bars."--BOOK JACKET.
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Confinamiento solitario, Poetas estadounidenses, Ex-presidiarios, Prisons, Ex-convicts, American Poets, Poetas mexicano-americanos, Mexican American poets, Prisiones, Solitary confinement, Biography, Biografía, Poets, biography, Mexican americans, Prisons, united statesPeople
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En suelo firme: el nacimiento de un poeta
2002, Alfaguara/Santillana
in Spanish
8420464244 9788420464244
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A Place To Stand
June 30, 2001, Mountain Press Publishing Company
Hardcover
in English
1889921122 9781889921129
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A place to stand: the making of a poet
2001, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
- 1st ed.
0802116027 9780802116024
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A place to stand: the making of a poet
2001, Grove Press
in English
- 1st papreback ed.
0802139086 9780802139085
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