Jimmy Santiago Baca - September 14, 1988

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Jimmy Santiago Baca

In this performance, Jimmy Santiago Baca reads from Black Mesa Poems, a collection published the year after this reading took place. He also performs poems from Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, a book that was awarded the Before Columbus American Book Award and earned Jimmy Santiago Baca an NEA grant for the year of this reading.

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Introduction
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by Lois Shelton

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"Cloudy Day"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Immigrants in Our Own Land. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1979.

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Excerpt from "Martín"
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Section V

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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.

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Excerpt from "Martín"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.

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Excerpt from "Meditations on the South Valley"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.

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Excerpt from "Meditations on the South Valley"
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Section VI.

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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.

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"Day's Blood"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Green Chile"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"What's Real and What's Not"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Picking Pinons"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Perfecto Flores"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Main Character"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Child of the Sun -- Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Since You've Come"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Tomas Lucero"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"I Am Here"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"Dream Come Early"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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"A Field of Clover"
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Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.

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Question and Answer Session
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Jimmy Santiago Baca
Photographer
Lois Shelton
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