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A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet

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Synopsis:

From one of America's most acclaimed poets comes a powerful memoir of childhood on the small farms of New Mexico, his adolescence spent in orphanages and detention centers, his years as a drug dealer, and his stunning personal redemption inside the walls of a maximum security prison.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780802116024
Subtitle:
The Making of a Poet
Author:
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Publisher:
Grove Press
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Specific Groups - Criminals
Subject:
Prisons
Subject:
Family/Interpersonal Memoir
Subject:
Poets, American
Subject:
Ex-convicts
Subject:
Solitary confinement
Subject:
Mexican American poets
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Criminals & Outlaws
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
EDO-HE-1999-9
Publication Date:
July 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
264
Dimensions:
8.48x5.78x.94 in. .95 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , From one of America's most acclaimed poets comes a powerful memoir of childhood on the small farms of New Mexico, his adolescence spent in orphanages and detention centers, his years as a drug dealer, and his stunning personal redemption inside the walls of a maximum security prison.
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