{"product_id":"9780811223331","title":"Selected Poems\/Poemas Selectos","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Baca writes with unconcealed passion . . . and manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events.”—Denise Levertov\u003c\/p\u003e Champion of the International Poetry Slam, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the prestigious International Award, Jimmy Santiago Baca has been writing as a mestizo (part Native American, part Mexican) and an outsider ever since he learned to read and write—in English—during a six-year Federal prison sentence when he was in his twenties. Drawing on his rich ethnic heritage and his life growing up in poverty in the Southwestern United States, Baca has a created a body of work which speaks to the disenfranchised by drawing on his experiences as a prisoner, a father, a poet, and by reflecting on the lush, and sometimes stark, landscape of the Rio Grande valley.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In response to increased demand for Latino poetry in Spanish, and to thousands of Baca fans who are bilingual, this unique collection contains Spanish translations of Baca’s poetry selected from the volumes \u003cem\u003eMartín and Mediations on the South Valley\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eBlack Mesa Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003eImmigrants in Our Own Land\u003c\/em\u003e (1990), \u003cem\u003eHealing Earthquakes\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), \u003cem\u003eC-Train and Thirteen Mexicans\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eWinter Poems Along the Rio Grande\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), and \u003cem\u003eSpring Poems Along the Rio Grande\u003c\/em\u003e (2007).","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129368822000,"sku":"9780811223331","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811223331_p0.jpg?v=1763729517","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811223331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}