Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or "detribalized Apache." Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in the stubborn and beautiful world of the barrio. Jimmy Santiago Baca "writes with unconcealed passion," Denise Levertov states in her introduction, "but he is far from being a naive realist; show more what makes his writing so exciting to me is the way in which it manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythic and archetypal significance of life-events." show lessTags
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Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Place to Stand and several collections of poetry, including Healing Earthquakes and C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans. His awards and honors include the National Endowment of Poetry Award, Pushcart Prize, Southwest Book Award, American Book Award, and the show more International Prize show less
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