Singing at the Gates

Singing at the Gates
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9780802192905
ISBN-13 : 0802192904
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Book Synopsis Singing at the Gates by : Jimmy Santiago Baca

Download or read book Singing at the Gates written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious...righteous and prayerful” (Booklist). Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. “A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation


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