Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Reading Date: Wednesday, September 14, 1988
- Introduction
- "Cloudy Day"
- Excerpt from "Martín"
- Excerpt from "Martín"
- Excerpt from "Meditations on the South Valley"
- Excerpt from "Meditations on the South Valley"
- "Day's Blood"
- "Green Chile"
- "What's Real and What's Not"
- "Picking Pinons"
- "Perfecto Flores"
- "Main Character"
- "Child of the Sun -- Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)"
- "Since You've Come"
- "Tomas Lucero"
- "I Am Here"
- "Dream Come Early"
- "A Field of Clover"
- Question and Answer Session
Introduction-2752
by Lois Shelton
"Cloudy Day"-2753
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Immigrants in Our Own Land. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1979.
Excerpt from "Martín"-2754
Section V
Annotation:
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.
Excerpt from "Martín"-2755
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.
Excerpt from "Meditations on the South Valley"-2756
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.
Excerpt from "Meditations on the South Valley"-2757
Section VI.
Annotation:
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. New York: New Directions, 1987.
"Day's Blood"-2758
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Green Chile"-2759
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"What's Real and What's Not"-2760
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Picking Pinons"-2761
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Perfecto Flores"-2762
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Main Character"-2763
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Child of the Sun -- Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)"-2764
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Since You've Come"-2765
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Tomas Lucero"-2766
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"I Am Here"-2767
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"Dream Come Early"-2768
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
"A Field of Clover"-2769
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Black Mesa Poems. New York: New Directions: 1989.
Question and Answer Session-2770
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
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.
- nature
- family
- bilingual
- chicano
- borders
- southwest
- war
- desert
- prison
- native american descent
- justice
- children
- love
- spanish
- pregnancy
- narrative
- outdoors
- cities
- human condition
- dogs
- loneliness
- food
- animals
- blindness
- illness
- politics
- cars
- aging
- birth
- grandmothers
- vietnam
- biographical
- homelessness
- Incarceration
- Before Columbus American Book Award
- La Llorona
- vetrans
- mechanics
- babies
- Autobiogrophy
- Inequality
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