Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems

Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems
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Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early PoemsÂ 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.
Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early PoemsÂ 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. The voice of ImmigrantsÂ will be familiar to readers of the widely praisedÂ MartÃn & Meditations on the South ValleyÂ andÂ Black Mesa PoemsÂ (New Directions, 1987 and 1989), but the territory may not be. Most of the poems in this collection were written while the author was in prison, where he taught himself to read and write. All the poems are concerned with the incarcerated or the disenfranchised; they all communicate the sting from the backhand of the American promise. As Denise Levertov has noted, Baca "is far from being a naive realist," but of poverty and prejudice, of material that is truly raw, he "writes in unconcealed passion."
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1990-11-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811211451

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1990-11-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811211451

Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems

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