Artículos relacionados a Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande

Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande - Tapa blanda

Baca, Jimmy Santiago

 
9780811216852: Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0811216853 ISBN 13: 9780811216852
Editorial: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2007

Sinopsis

In Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and the natural world are revealed--"the river and I see through each other's skins / behind the eyes into the tunnels of water-bone and rushing marrow." These poems expand upon those in Baca's recent Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande -- his visions of love and loss, poverty and renewal, redemption and war are reflected in the rocks, trees and animals of his beloved New Mexico. In Spring Poems the words of the river "rise around thorny thickets / then descend again into the burbling stubble," and the poet surrenders himself to this place where his own words are woven by "a thumbnail-sized yellow spider/ with poppy seed eyes." Born in New Mexico of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother, but was later sent with his brother to an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a Federal prison at the age of twenty-one that he began to turn his life around: there he learned to read and write and found his passion for poetry. His memoir A Place To Stand won the prestigious International Award. He is Champion of the International Poetry Slam and winner of The Before Columbus American Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1952. His parents abandoned him at the age of two, and he lived with his grandmother for several years before being placed in an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one for drug offenses. It was in prison that he learned to read and write and began to compose poetry. His book Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, a pair of long narrative poems, won an American Book Award in 1988. In addition to his poetry collections and stories, Baca wrote the screenplay for the movie Bound by Honor, which was released by Hollywood Pictures in 1993.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0811216853
ISBN 13 
9780811216852
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
128
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible