{"product_id":"9780802198556","title":"C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning poet and author of \u003ci\u003eA Place to Stand\u003c\/i\u003e crafts provocative portraits of addiction and the Mexican American experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Jimmy Santiago Baca’s brilliantly received memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Place to Stand\u003c\/i\u003e, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped—and continues to inform—his raw, incisive voice.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A heart-stopping series of episodes about addiction, \u003ci\u003eC-Train\u003c\/i\u003e features Dream Boy, a young man who finds himself seduced, and later enslaved, by the siren song of cocaine. Part paean to the delicious power of intoxication, part lament for those helplessly under its power, \u003ci\u003eC-Train\u003c\/i\u003e is a ride its hero, and the reader, struggle to get off.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThirteen Mexicans\u003c\/i\u003e, Baca writes of the Chicano community and the gulf between the American dream and American reality. In searing, elegiac vignettes he portrays the raw beauty of life in the barrio and the surreal, stomach-turning moment when people of color must confront how they are reflected in the distorted mirror of white society. Giving voice to the dispossessed and the disenfranchised, Baca confirms his place as one of the nation’s leading poets, whose words “heal, inspire, and elicit the earthly response of love” (Garrett Hongo).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Baca] writes with . . . an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythic and archetypal significance of life-events.” —Denise Levertov\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Baca] travels outward and inward as a Chicano in America, with all the complications that the identity entails. . . . [He is] a poet in control of his craft . . . whose voice, brutal yet tender, is unique in America.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118596178160,"sku":"9780802198556","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802198556_p0.jpg?v=1763726450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802198556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}