Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent. by Jimmy Santiago Baca First published in 2010 2 editions in 1 language 1 previewable Borrow Listen. Admired for his use of rich imagery and lyrical language, Baca, unlike a growing number of "prison writers" who inject their works with rage and desolation, writes poems dealing with spiritual rebirth and triumph over tragedy. I kept running away and escaping and escaping and escaping . Its very genuine. You can scroll down for information about his Social media profiles. He is from American. For a powerful radio interview with Baca about his life as a writer, click here: http://www.progressive.org/radio/baca09.html Tags ", Critics found much to praise in Martin and Meditations on the South Valley. a year ago Pages Liked by This Page Swimming with Elephants Jimmy Santiago Baca. Black Mesa Poems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1989. Cookouts, fireworks, and history lessons recounted in poems, articles, and audio. Bacas other poetry titles include Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train & 13 Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007). Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. He'd had two years of formal schooling. [1][2], Baca was born in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in 1952. . And suddenly, the inmate who called himself healing earthquake is indeed shaking up the literary world. Santiago Baca lives in Albuquerque with his wife and two teenagers. A fellow inmate convinced him to submit some of his poems to the magazine Mother Jones, then edited by Denise Levertov. Im too busy trying to capture the aspects of myself in the dark.. Jimmy Santiago Baca was born on January 2, 1952 (age 71) in New Mexico, United States. Can you imagine the shoe room, with 70,000 pairs of shoes and you find one that fits and then try to find its mate?. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. The critic concluded that Baca "is a freshly aggressive poet of many abilities. Jimmy Santiago Baca. PRINCIPAL WORKS Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Levertov wrote the introduction for Martin & Meditations on the South Valley and in it she describes Martin, the first of the books two long poems, as a Hero Tale, an archetypal journey., Asked how Bacas work has evolved, she replied: When he was writing in prison, he had a sketchy idea of punctuation and sometimes his usage was incorrect, but it didnt take him very long to get past that stage., There was always the possibility, she admitted, that he was someone with one theme and that once he was free, he wouldnt continue. Baca was born in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in 1952. ." By 5, the young mestizo (half Chicano/half detribalized Apache) was abandoned again, left at a New Mexico orphanage where he stayed until he was 11, running away the night before he was to be transferred to Boys Town. ", Baca produced another work, the ten-poem collection What's Happening, in 1982. In the title story, the couple's three children-a . In July 2007, he married Allyn. Read top and most recent tweets from his Twitter account here There he learned to read and began writing poetry. ", Baca has also had some success with dramas: his play Los tres hijos de Julia was performed in Los Angeles in 1991, and his film Bound by Honor, for which he cowrote the screenplay and produced, was released by a Disney company in 1993. . He found his inner light and he worked by it, said Will Inman, the former publisher of New Kauri poetry magazine, who began encouraging and visiting Baca while he was still in prison. Commending Baca's descriptions, drawn with "great telescopic accuracy and poignance," the reviewer called Martin and Meditations on the South Valley "a book of great complicity, maturity, and finally responsibility. My grandfather was in charge of the dairy cows, all Holsteins. By Jimmy Santiago Baca. PERSONAL: Born 1952, in NM; married; wife's name Beatrice (a therapist); children: Antonio, Gabriel. Nearly eleven years since the publication of Jimmy Santiago Baca's award-winning memoir A Place to Stand (Grove/Atlanta 2001), this remarkably raw and inspiring story of one man's salvation through poetry is being given new life as a feature film/documentary and is scheduled to make its debut in the spring of 2013. ", Published in conjunction with his memoir, the poetry collection Healing Earthquakes: A Love Story in Poems draws on a technique of journaling to record emotions and experiences. I could see he was really moved on an emotional level.. 2016by Jimmy Santiago Baca and Cedar Tree, Inc. Website by. All eight stories in the book focus on Chicano culture in the Southwest and feature characters who come from underprivileged backgrounds striving to do more with their lives than merely survive. . In prison, I didn't know if I was going to be alive from day to day." More optimistic than his earlier poetry, the thirty-nine poems contained in Winter Poems along the Rio Grande focus on Baca's current life, and his future dreams. It doesn't mean anything. Bacas work is concerned with social justice and revolves around the marginalized and disenfranchised, treating themes of addiction, community, and the American Southwest barrios. Jimmy Santiago Baca has a net worth of $5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Screenwriter. Sentenced to serve several years in a maximum security prison in Arizona, Baca ultimately spent four years in isolation and received electric shock treatments for a combative nature. Founder of nonprofit grassroots cooperative Black Mesa Enterprises. Contributor to anthologies, including New Worlds of Literature, edited by Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter, Norton (New York, NY), 1989; The Pushcart Prize XIV, edited by Bill Henderson, Penguin (New York, NY), 1989; and An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1989. In 1987, his semi-autobiographical minor epic in verse, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, received the American Book Award for poetry, bringing Baca international acclaim and, in 1989, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature. I was tired of being treated like an animal. After witnessing police beat up a drunk, Baca steals a policeman's schoolbook as silent protest (5). Baca began writing poetry and, at the behest of a fellow inmate, sent his works to Mother Jones magazine. Why was I so ignorant and deprived? Baca radiates a gentleness, serenity, and lack of anger. He swiftly became a teen-age street urchin, alcoholic, drug addict and wanderer. Jimmy Santiago Baca. Agentc/o Author Mail, New Directions Publishing, 80 8th Ave., New York, NY 10011. Born in 1952 in Santa Fe of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was abandoned by his parents and at 13 ran away from the orphanage where his grandmother had placed him. Most importantly, Kym believes in the power of literacy to save lives. Jimmy Santiago Baca Biography Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American Poet and writer. Writing in the American Book Review, Ron Arias commended the poet's skill and versatility: "At times [Baca] can be terse, narrowly focused, directly to the point. Other times he can resemble an exuberant Walt Whitman in the long-lined rhythm and sweep of his emotionsexpansive, wordy, even conversational." The latter work, a story of Chicano gang culture in East Los Angeles, was rather controversial for its depiction of violence. Nedra C. Evers of Library Journal called the memoir an "unflinching account of his incarceration, with its brutality and occasional benevolence," and considered the book "worth reading from both a literary and a social perspective." We are a living entity made of parts and will continue to grow! You just stand there and make money.. Baca--whose semi-autobiographical work is noted for its intense, primal imagery and poignant lyricism--is now in demand for poetry readings throughout the world (one of which is scheduled at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on April 17). Balassi, William, John F. Crawford, and Annie E. Eysturoy, editors, This Is about Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 1990. I forgot how to pronounce my own name, he recalled. Jimmy Santiago Baca . It was language that saved [me]." The organization employs ex-offenders as interns. And not only for me: from our meeting place we drove to a poetry slam featuring local high-school students. Poet, writer, educator This early collection included I Am Offering This Poem, a poem later reprinted in 1990s Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems and anthologized in The Seagull Book of Poems. Jimmy Santiago Baca was born on January 2, 1952 in New Mexico. I dont believe this (excrement) about Im an artist, give me a little cottage at the beach and Ill write, he said. I could hear the jailer making his rounds on the other tiers. Immigrants in Our Own Land, Bacas first major collection, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1979. The trouble with scoffing at human life with indifference is that its terribly numbing.. Later, his mother was murdered by her second husband and his father died of alcoholism. Abandoned by his parents at the age of two, he lived with his grandmother for several years before he was placed in an orphanage. Occupation Poet Notable works Martin and Meditations on the South Valley Notable awards American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, International Hispanic Heritage Award, International Award. His determination was rewarded when poet and professor Denise Levertov, then poetry editor of Mother Jones, printed Baca's poems in the periodical. I view Baca's memoir through the lens of Jamner and Stokols' work on preventative behavior and reducing toxicity in the life domains of home, social settings, commute, and education. I want others to use their experience too: well merge, integrate and blend what we know, then sift through what works and doesnt work. Teacher and lecturer at universities. After a lot of work, a lot of faith, and a lot of learning to love myself and others, I came out of the darkness. . New York Times, April 30, 1993, Vincent Canby, review of Bound by Honor, p. C8; January 14, 1994, p. D16. Raised by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage, he became a runaway by age 13. 175-177. Many of his novels feature the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family in Albany, New York.The novels make use of incidents from the city's history as well as the supernatural. From feeding everyone, 2 and 4 legged beings, to milking the goats to improving the barn and property, the work never seems to end. You dont have to be a specialist. Immigrants in Our Own Land: Poems, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1979, enlarged edition published as Immigrants in Our Own Land and Earlier Poems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1990. In 1987, his semi-autobiographical minor epic in verse, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, received the American Book Award for poetry, bringing Baca international acclaim and, in 1989, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature. 1. During this time he taught himself to read and write and began to compose poetry. His verse novel, Martin and Meditations on the South Valley, received the American Book Award in 1989. While several recognized the work as a forceful sociological and cultural document, Liam Rector in the Hudson Review also deemed the poetry volume "a page-turner." My wife and I both work, and work long hours. Stand. Do you know what you are? Bound by Honor (screenplay), Hollywood Pictures, 1993. Everyone is welcome. by Kirsten Ogden. Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one and facing five to ten years behind bars for . Throughout this beautifully written memoir, Baca describes his experiences in and outside of prison, and how he moved from being a victim of the system to a survivor through the written word. "With Martin and Meditations on the South Valley," Melendez suggested, "Baca brings to closure that phase of his poetry that deals with loss, dejection, a searching for identity, and a sense of belonging. ." . By his own account, Jimmy Santiago Baca's parents divorced and abandoned him to a grandparent when he was 2. Jimmy Santiago Baca TITLE COMMENTARY MAJOR WORKS: Youll be surprised and amazed at how youve come into your own light again. This was his turning point. Quotes [ edit] I was institutionalized from age five to thirty years, first in an orphanage and then in prison. His father, Damacio Baca,. He just looked like a guy happy to be there. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Jimmy Santiago Baca (chapbook), Rock Bottom (Santa Barbara, CA), 1978. Sincere in his intent and uncompromising when it comes to his principles, Jimmy Santiago-Baca is helping to change lives, person by person - with words. What's Happening (poetry), Curbstone Press (Willimantic, CT), 1982. Author photo: Esai Baca Read more At the moment, daily existence involves considerable traveling. Baca finally married, clinging to the love of his wife and his poetry "to give voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless, of which I am one." A brutally unflinching look back at a dead-end youth that became a crucible for vivid and vital art. Never solid ground beneath me, never a resting place. 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