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Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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Description:"This fiery retrospective collection" of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is "warm and furious...righteous and prayerful" (Booklist).Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail.Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca's work stretching across four decades--poems that revitalize the national raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca's first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. "A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America."--The NationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems. To get started finding Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0802192904

Description: "This fiery retrospective collection" of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is "warm and furious...righteous and prayerful" (Booklist).Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail.Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca's work stretching across four decades--poems that revitalize the national raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca's first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. "A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America."--The NationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems. To get started finding Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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