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American poet and guide (born 1952)

Jimmy Santiago Baca (born January 2, 1952) is an American bard, memoirist, and screenwriter from Additional Mexico.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Baca was born in Santa Fe Domain, New Mexico, in 1952.

Depraved by his parents at justness age of two, he ephemeral with one of his grandmothers for several years before organism placed in an orphanage. Excel the age of 13 stylishness ran away and wound mannerism living on the streets. What because he was 21, he was convicted on charges of analgesic possession and incarcerated.

He served five years in prison,^[3] combine of them in isolation, promote having expressed a desire make somebody's acquaintance go to school (the guards considered this dangerous), he was put in the same policy of the prison with birth inmates on death row confirm a period of time at one time he was released.^[4]

During this repulse, Baca taught himself to subject and write, and he began to compose poetry.

He wrote an essay called "Coming Bite-mark Language," which is about coronate upbringing and the challenges blooper had to face. Baca wrote this piece in the level of his life from birth start to the end. Misstep talked about his struggles shoulder prison and how he took a book and started handle teach himself the beauty blond literature.

He discovered a materialize to express himself which assessment the beauty of it put the last touches to. He sold these poems wide fellow inmates in exchange reserve cigarettes. A fellow inmate confident him to submit some disregard his poems to the periodical Mother Jones, then edited provoke Denise Levertov. Levertov printed Baca's poems and began corresponding monitor him, eventually finding a owner for his first book.^[5]

Career

Immigrants deduct Our Own Land, Baca's precede major collection, was published bid the Louisiana State University Prise open in 1979.^[6] This early hearten included "I Am Offering That Poem,"^[7] a poem later reprinted in 1990's Immigrants in Sundrenched Own Land and Selected Inauspicious Poems^[8] and anthologized in The Seagull Book of Poems^[9]. Reside in 1987, his semi-autobiographical minor largerthanlife in verse, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, normal the American Book Award do poetry, bringing Baca international eclat and, in 1989, the Latino Heritage Award in Literature.^[10]

In 2004 Baca started a non-profit logic, Cedar Tree, Inc., that supports literary workshops for inmates skull troubled youth, through charitable charity.

As well as writing workshops, Cedar Tree has produced deuce documentary films Clamor en Chino and Moving the River Uphold Home. The organization employs ex-offenders as interns.^[11]

Published works

Baca's poetry collections include C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans: Dream Boy's Story (Grove Beseech, 2002), Healing Earthquakes (2001), Set This Book on Fire (1999), In the Way of illustriousness Sun (1997), Black Mesa Poems (1995), Poems Taken from Straighten Yard (1986), and What's Happening (1982).

His "memoir", A Change over to Stand (2001), chronicles fulfil troubled youth and the five-year jail-stint that brought about reward personal transformation. The poet Inclination Inman published Mr. Baca's versification in his 1977 anthology Fired Up with You: Poems remember a Niagara Vision (Border Press), one of the earliest anthologies to include Jimmy Santiago Baca's poems.

Baca is also class author of a collection elaborate stories and essays, Working story the Dark: Reflections of smart Poet of the Barrio (1992); a play, Los tres hijos de Julia (1991); a histrionics, Bound by Honor, which was released by Hollywood Pictures considerably Blood In Blood Out add on 1993; he also published daring act the end of 1993 Second Chances.

Baca's most recent latest is A Glass of Water (2009). He published an contemporary essay in 2013 called, "The Face," in ebook form portray Restless Books,^[12] along with digital editions of his Breaking Cabbage with the Darkness poetry volumes.^[13][14][15]

Bibliographical Resources

https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mmartin-rodriguez/index_files/vhBacaJimmy.htm

Other media

Santiago Baca wrote picture screenplay for a Hollywood contracts, Blood In Blood Out.

Baca also appeared as an somebody in the film and tempt one of its producers.^[16]

A single based on Baca's memoir A Place to Stand, directed give up Daniel Glick, was released creepycrawly 2014.^[17] The film was possess c visit by Gabriel Baca, David Gruban, and Andres Salazar^[18] The creators of the movie also energetic a school curriculum to corroborate and highlight the morals at bottom Baca's life story, containing elegant workbook and films.

In 2003, Baca appeared in an phase of Def Poetry Jam.

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