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Jimmy Santiago Baca
(b.1952)Jimmy Santiago Baca (born in Santa Fe, New Mexico) of Apache and Chicano descent is an American poet and writer.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Collections
What's Happening (poems) (1982)
Poems Taken From My Yard (poems) (1986)
Martin & Meditations On the South Valley (poems) (1987)
Black Mesa Poems (poems) (1989)
Immigrants in Our Own Land (1991)
Working in the Dark (poems) (1992)
Set This Book On Fire! (poems) (1999)
Que Linda Ia Brisa (poems) (2000) (with Benjamin Alire Sáenz)
Healing Earthquakes (poems) (2001)
C-train and Thirteen Mexicans (poems) (2002)
The Importance of a Piece of Paper (2004)
Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (poems) (2004)
Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (poems) (2007)
Rita and Julia (poems) (2008)
Stories and Poems from the Edge (2010)
Singing at the Gates (poems) (2014)
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am (poems) (2019)
No Enemies (poems) (2021)
Poems Taken From My Yard (poems) (1986)
Martin & Meditations On the South Valley (poems) (1987)
Black Mesa Poems (poems) (1989)
Immigrants in Our Own Land (1991)
Working in the Dark (poems) (1992)
Set This Book On Fire! (poems) (1999)
Que Linda Ia Brisa (poems) (2000) (with Benjamin Alire Sáenz)
Healing Earthquakes (poems) (2001)
C-train and Thirteen Mexicans (poems) (2002)
The Importance of a Piece of Paper (2004)
Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (poems) (2004)
Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (poems) (2007)
Rita and Julia (poems) (2008)
Stories and Poems from the Edge (2010)
Singing at the Gates (poems) (2014)
When I Walk Through That Door, I Am (poems) (2019)
No Enemies (poems) (2021)
Non fiction show
Jimmy Santiago Baca recommends
Calling for a Blanket Dance (2022)
Oscar Hokeah
"The characters that populate Calling for a Blanket Dance are real, amazing, vulnerable and beautiful in their flaws and, even despair--Oscar Hokeah unveils their suffering and joy, their struggle to live with honor, care for family, walk right. What an accomplishment. Few writers have the courage or craft to pull this off. Hokeah beats the drum and stomps, announcing his power is back, the people have returned with powerful stories. He weaves a tale that is unforgettable and fortifying. I couldn't put the book down."
Lost in Arcadia (2017)
Sean Gandert
"Sean Gandert's new book is a must-read, a gotta-read book, a go out and buy the damn thing. Once you buy it, share it, carry it in your backpack and tell your friends about it, you're not going to get this kind of book in school, this is way ahead of school books, it dips into real life, it dives into the underworld of our feelings and holds you there, until you discover the pearls…"
Anthologies containing stories by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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