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The Esai Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 0989983226
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Esai Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. An essential voice in world poetry, Baca chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the birth of his children, Lucia and Esai. Recalling the works of other poets who passed through the horrors of extreme experience–Nazim Hikmet, Paul Celan, Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Wat, Otto René Castillo, and more–The Lucia Poems and The Esai Poems give poignant acknowledgement to one generation’s failings and pass on humane advice to the next. Taken together as Breaking Bread with the Darkness, these two collections offer a poetic primer for paternity, and a model for teaching history, politics, spirituality, and survival. Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet, internationally known for his lyrical, politically charged verse. Of Apache and Chicano ancestry, at the age of twenty-one he was convicted on drug charges and spent over six years in prison, where he found his voice as a poet through correspondence with Denise Levertov of Mother Jones. His books include the poetry collections C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, Set This Book on Fire, Black Mesa Poems, Poems Taken from My Yard, and What's Happening; a memoir, A Place to Stand; a play, Los tres hijos de Julia; a screenplay for the film Blood In Blood Out; and the novel A Glass of Water. He has published three eBooks with Restless Books: The Face and two Breaking Bread with the Darkness poetry volumes. Baca is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for A Place to Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca has devoted his post-prison life to writing and teaching others who are overcoming hardship. His themes include American Southwest barrios, addiction, injustice, education, and cultural difference. He regularly conducts writing workshops in prisons, community centers, and universities throughout the country.

The Esai Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Sherman Asher Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781890932398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Esai Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Sherman Asher Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He wakes from his afternoon siesta, / flapping legs and hands, / a bluebird perched on the birch/ branch of mother's arm/ ready to raid/ cornfields/ in his father's heart/ THE ESAI POEMS is the first of four books under the series title of BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DARKNESS by American Book Award recipient Jimmy Santiago Baca. The Esai poems are a poignant blend of Baca's wonder of his and his partner's newborn son, and the thoughts and observations of the world he will be inheriting, includlding, including war, racism, indifference and greed. Through Esai the wonder-struck new father explores the idealic world of his family through Esai's new eyes, "He studies his hands as if they are newly discovered planets . . ." but realizing the harsh realities of our times adds perspective with juxtapositions: "I'll wait to tell him how in some places armies cut off the hands of rebels..." Written as a series of thematically connected and dated poems, moving back and forth between ideas, The Esai Poems are some of Baca's strongest poetic work. Already father of two grown sons, Baca explors the implications of beginning another family with another woman. Subsiquent volumes will include explorations of self and family with Essays and Stories, The Lucia Poems (to his young daugher), and to his son, Tones and Gabe Poems and Essays.

The Lucia Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 0989983234
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Lucia Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War. An essential voice in world poetry, Baca chronicles the changes that envelop him upon the birth of his children, Lucia and Esai. Recalling the works of other poets who passed through the horrors of extreme experience–Nazim Hikmet, Paul Celan, Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Wat, Otto René Castillo, and more–The Lucia Poems and The Esai Poems give poignant acknowledgement to one generation’s failings and pass on humane advice to the next. Taken together as Breaking Bread with the Darkness, these two collections offer a poetic primer for paternity, and a model for teaching history, politics, spirituality, and survival. Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning poet, internationally known for his lyrical, politically charged verse. Of Apache and Chicano ancestry, at the age of twenty-one he was convicted on drug charges and spent over six years in prison, where he found his voice as a poet through correspondence with Denise Levertov of Mother Jones. His books include the poetry collections C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, Set This Book on Fire, Black Mesa Poems, Poems Taken from My Yard, and What's Happening; a memoir, A Place to Stand; a play, Los tres hijos de Julia; a screenplay for the film Blood In Blood Out; and the novel A Glass of Water. He has published three eBooks with Restless Books: The Face and two Breaking Bread with the Darkness poetry volumes. Baca is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, and, for A Place to Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca has devoted his post-prison life to writing and teaching others who are overcoming hardship. His themes include American Southwest barrios, addiction, injustice, education, and cultural difference. He regularly conducts writing workshops in prisons, community centers, and universities throughout the country.

Mamicka

Author : Patrick Meighan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Mamicka written by Patrick Meighan and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry chapbook from AQP: Mamicka by Patrick Meighan began as Meighan's personal journey to get in touch with his Slavic roots, but what it became is something far more universal - an expression of the longing of a son to hold onto memories of the mother he lost to Alzheimer's. One after another, the poems conjure memories in metaphor. Each one flickers with its own special light and then burns out. Memories, we learn, are like sea glass polished by suffering and time. Memories, we find, are like chocolate, melting in a schoolgirl's mouth. Memories, in the end, thin like hair and gradually fall away. The poems themselves slip back and forth through time, much like Mamicka's mind. One moment, the poet's voice is that of a child, a pest, underfoot in Mamicka's kitchen. The next, it is that of a middle-aged man, solemnly reflecting on heredity. The poems are prayers. Prayers for Mamicka (or to her). Above all, they are prayers for memory

Killdeer

Author : Phil Hall
Publisher : Book*hug
ISBN 13 : 9781897388815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Killdeer written by Phil Hall and published by Book*hug. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY WINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGN SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to -- Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. His notorious 2004 chapbook essay The Bad Sequence is also included here, for a wider readership, at last. It has been revised. (It's teeth have been sharpened.) In this book, the line is the unit of composition; the reading is wide; the perspective personal: each take a give, and logic a drawback. Language is not a smart-aleck; it's a sacred tinkerer. Readers are invited to watch awe become a we. In Fred Wah's phrase, what is offered here is "the music at the heart of thinking."

An Essay on Man

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on Man written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elucidating Essay Poetry

Author : Denny JA
Publisher : Cerah Budaya Indonesia
ISBN 13 : 6236204128
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Elucidating Essay Poetry written by Denny JA and published by Cerah Budaya Indonesia. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay poetry is only one variation among many forms of poetry that already exist and which will exist in the future. I does not pretend or claim to be superior or inferior to other forms of poetry. It also does not purport to either dominate or homogenize poetry. It is just one rose from the exuberant garden of Eden, which is filled with many other types of flowers. It is just one deer of a certain species that dwells among many other kinds of wildlife. It is only one color, orange, among a rainbow, which is enriched by a variety of other colors.

Black Mesa Poems

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211024
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Black Mesa Poems written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that grows out of the American Southwest focusing on family and community life of the barrio sharing births and deaths, neighbors and seasons, and injustices and victories.

How a Poem Moves

Author : Adam Sol
Publisher : Misfit Book
ISBN 13 : 9781770414563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book How a Poem Moves written by Adam Sol and published by Misfit Book. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walk readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and delivers essays that demonstrate poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions.

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

Author : Adrienne Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393355144
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry written by Adrienne Rich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Critics’ Pick A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.

First Loves

Author : Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684864398
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book First Loves written by Carmela Ciuraru and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.

Fracture

Author : Taylor Brorby
Publisher : Ice Cube Press
ISBN 13 : 9781888160901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Fracture written by Taylor Brorby and published by Ice Cube Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together a choir of established and emerging writers, giving voice to the complexities of hydraulic fracturing across the United States. During a time in which so much information is known about fracking, art is needed to move the public consciousness and national conversation towards better land practices. In the tradition of Wallace Stegners 'This is Dinosaur,' Terry Tempest Williams and Stephen Trimbles 'Testimony,' and Rick Bass and David James Duncans 'The Heart of the Monster,' Fracture braids together essays, poems, and fiction to help bring new understanding to the plight of fracking. Pam Houston provides an introduction.

Feeding the Roots of Self-Expression and Freedom

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807759554
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Feeding the Roots of Self-Expression and Freedom written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This curriculum-based collection of lesson plans is designed to build student confidence for articulating their unique ideas and sensibilities about the world through literary expression. For this book, Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two National Writing Project Fellows and literacy professionals, Kym Sheehan and Denise VanBriggle. Together they present a teaching tool that uses poems from Baca’s incarceration as a young man, along with curricular activities and probing questions crafted to help students heal through writing. Each exercise reinforces the theme that a strong grasp of self-esteem borne from unique expression lends itself to the student enjoying day-to-day life at the highest creative and fulfilling level. Book Features: Draws on the extraordinary life and career of Jimmy Santiago Baca, who came to write poetry in prison and now has 28 works in print, ranging from a feature movie Blood In Blood Out to his bestselling memoir A Place to Stand. Based on the authors’ combined experience of facilitating hundreds of writing workshops. Offers field-tested recommendations to help educators inspire and fortify students suffering from doubt or damaged self-esteem. Includes detailed descriptions, exercises, and sample poetry to assist teachers and students in the writing process.

Working in the Dark

Author : Jimmy Baca
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0890135932
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Working in the Dark written by Jimmy Baca and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, his role as a witness for the misunderstood tribal life of the barrio, and his redemptive vocation as a poet.

Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442275499
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature written by Francisco A. Lomelí and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Latino Literature is defined as Latino literature within the United States that embraces the heterogeneous inter-groupings of Latinos. For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought of as an integral part of the overall shared American literary landscape, but that is slowly changing. This dictionary aims to rectify some of those misconceptions by proving that Latinos do fundamentally express American issues, concerns and perspectives with a flair in linguistic cadences, familial themes, distinct world views, and cross-cultural voices. The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has cross-referenced entries on U.S. Latino/a authors, and terms relevant to the nature of U.S. Latino literature in order to illustrate and corroborate its foundational bearings within the overall American literary experience. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.

Notes on the Mosquito

Author : 西川
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811219877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Mosquito written by 西川 and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally renowned Chinese poet's first collection to appear in English.

Laughing in the Light

Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890136454
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Laughing in the Light written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A reflection on — and a reckoning of — self by acclaimed poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca. The new collection of essays picks up where Baca's earlier celebrated books, Working in the Dark, left off. It is the writer's first attempt to revisit the past twenty years with a renewed heart and wizened spirit as he shares his experiences, the tough lessons he has learned, and how his views have changed. No topic is off the table as Baca delves deep into themes ranging from arts, culture, and education to criminal justice reform."--Back cover.