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Place to Stand the Making of a Poet

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

ISBN13: 9780802116024
ISBN10: 0802116027
Condition: Standard
DustJacket: Standard

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Hardcover

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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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ISBN:: 9780802116024
Binding:: Hardcover
Publication date:: 06/01/2001
Publisher:: ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Pages:: 264
Height:: 8.48 in.
Width:: 5.78 in.
Thickness:: .94 in.
Number of Units:: 1
Series Volume:: EDO-HE-1999-9
UPC Code:: 2800802116026
Author:: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Subject:: Prisons
Subject:: Poets, American
Subject:: Mexican American poets
Subject:: Personal Memoirs
Subject:: Solitary confinement
Subject:: Ex-convicts