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Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley.    In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes Martín and Mediations on the South Valley (1987), Black Mesa Poems (1989), Immigrants in Our Own Land (1990), Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362220249361,"sku":"CIN0811218163G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416400757009,"sku":"CIN0811218163VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811218163.jpg?v=1751362026"},{"product_id":"glass-of-water-book-jimmy-santiago-baca-9780802145109","title":"A Glass of Water","description":"A Glass of Water is a gripping tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at our country’s borders. 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This arresting collection displays the breadth and depth of Baca's poetic power--with irreverent charm and disarming freedom of mind and soul. The vital pulse of love abiding in these poems will affirm and reaffirm, for both longtime and newfound readers, his devotion to truth and beauty.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50460080603409,"sku":"CIN0802122930G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820718715153,"sku":"NLS9780802122933","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53511418773777,"sku":"CIN0802122930VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802122930.jpg?v=1750979062"},{"product_id":"black-mesa-poems-book-jimmy-santiago-baca-9780811211024","title":"Black Mesa Poems","description":"Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin \u0026amp; 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. 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Merging a refreshing innocence with a profound understanding of the world's brutality, The Importance of a Piece of Paper is a daring and arresting work that is at once fearless, tender, and inspiring.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50571768201489,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50571770298641,"sku":"CIN0802117651VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53339851850001,"sku":"CIN0802117651A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53340966912273,"sku":"CIN0802117651G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0802117651.jpg?v=1751264814"},{"product_id":"spring-poems-along-the-rio-grande-book-jimmy-santiago-baca-9780811216852","title":"Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande","description":"In Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, 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--\"the river and I see through each other's skins \/ behind the eyes into the tunnels of water-bone and rushing marrow.\" These poems expand upon those in Baca's recent Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande -- his visions of love and loss, poverty and renewal, redemption and war are reflected in the rocks, trees and animals of his beloved New Mexico. 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.\" Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother, but was later sent with his brother to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a Federal prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry. His memoir A Place To Stand won the prestigious International Award. 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