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Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American poet, teacher, and activist of Apache and Chicano descent, and holds a number of awards for his easily accessible writing style and activism. He is the author of A Place to Stand, which was developed into a documentary film about his life, airing on PBS.
This slim, salient volume will open readers' eyes wide to the true human stories behind blaring headlines about immigration policies and debates. --Booklist, Starred Review Jimmy Baca's new book brilliantly reimagines the epic poem--and reshapes the epic hero as a young immigrant woman struggling to escape violence and find the child that has been torn away from her. A work that speaks strikingly and passionately of our times. --Richard Blanco [Baca] writes with unconcealed passion . . . both an intense lyricism and transformative vision. --Denise Levertov [Baca's] voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America. --Ilan Stavans, The Nation What makes [Baca's poetry] a success is its honesty, a brutal honesty, as well as his original imagery and the passion of his writing. --Gary Soto, The San Francisco Chronicle
