Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Reading Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Introduction-3667
Description:
by Niki Herd
Opening Remarks-3668
Book 1, Section 12 of Healing Earthquakes, "Fingers..."-3669
Annotation:
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Healing Earthquakes. New York: Grove Press, 2001.
Book 1, Section 12 of Healing Earthquakes (Continued), "You sign checks..."-3670
Annotation:
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Healing Earthquakes. New York: Grove Press, 2001.
"Tire shop..."-3671
Annotation:
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Healing Earthquakes. New York: Grove Press, 2001.
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Reading Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Series: Tucson Festival of Books
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center, Tucson Festival of Books
Series: Tucson Festival of Books
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center, Tucson Festival of Books
As part of the Tucson Festival of Books, Jimmy Santiago Baca performs excerpts from his collection of poems Healing Earthquakes.
- family
- bilingual
- chicano
- spanglish
- southwest
- prison
- spanish
- language
- narrative
- latino
- race
- immigration
- community activist
- racism
- politics
- activism
- communication
- working class
- tucson festival of books
- brothers
- non-fiction
- brotherhood
- personal essay
- Incarceration
- Illiteracy
- immigrants
- political activist
- class systems
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