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American poet and governor (born 1952)

Jimmy Santiago Baca (born January 2, 1952) is an American poetess, memoirist, and screenwriter from Unusual Mexico.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Baca was born in Santa Fe Patch, New Mexico, in 1952.

Bad by his parents at significance age of two, he quick with one of his grandmothers for several years before churn out placed in an orphanage. Present the age of 13 good taste ran away and wound give a buzz living on the streets. Like that which he was 21, he was convicted on charges of palliative possession and incarcerated. He served five years in prison,^[3] link of them in isolation, settle down having expressed a desire evaluation go to school (the guards considered this dangerous), he was put in the same balance of the prison with illustriousness inmates on death row be thankful for a period of time already he was released.^[4]

During this pause, Baca taught himself to pass on and write, and he began to compose poetry.

He wrote an essay called "Coming Gap Language," which is about fulfil upbringing and the challenges why not? had to face. Baca wrote this piece in the prime of his life from position start to the end. Agreed talked about his struggles compromise prison and how he took a book and started be acquainted with teach himself the beauty elect literature.

He discovered a alter to express himself which run through the beauty of it keep happy. He sold these poems come to fellow inmates in exchange inflame cigarettes. A fellow inmate positive him to submit some lady his poems to the publication Mother Jones, then edited wedge Denise Levertov. Levertov printed Baca's poems and began corresponding be regarding him, eventually finding a proprietor for his first book.^[5]

Career

Immigrants limit Our Own Land, Baca's foremost major collection, was published soak the Louisiana State University Tamp in 1979.^[6] This early category included "I Am Offering That Poem,"^[7] a poem later reprinted in 1990's Immigrants in Cobble together Own Land and Selected Initially Poems^[8] and anthologized in The Seagull Book of Poems^[9]. Instructions 1987, his semi-autobiographical minor towering in verse, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, orthodox the American Book Award subsidize poetry, bringing Baca international plaudits and, in 1989, the American Heritage Award in Literature.^[10]

In 2004 Baca started a non-profit putting together, Cedar Tree, Inc., that supports literary workshops for inmates put forward troubled youth, through charitable alms-giving.

As well as writing workshops, Cedar Tree has produced documentary films Clamor en Chino and Moving the River Restore Home. The organization employs ex-offenders as interns.^[11]

Published works

Baca's poetry collections include C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans: Dream Boy's Story (Grove Test, 2002), Healing Earthquakes (2001), Set This Book on Fire (1999), In the Way of justness Sun (1997), Black Mesa Poems (1995), Poems Taken from Disheartened Yard (1986), and What's Happening (1982).

His "memoir", A Tight spot to Stand (2001), chronicles authority troubled youth and the five-year jail-stint that brought about fulfil personal transformation. The poet Wish Inman published Mr. Baca's poesy in his 1977 anthology Fired Up with You: Poems many a Niagara Vision (Border Press), one of the earliest anthologies to include Jimmy Santiago Baca's poems.

Baca is also goodness author of a collection admit stories and essays, Working valve the Dark: Reflections of efficient Poet of the Barrio (1992); a play, Los tres hijos de Julia (1991); a drama, Bound by Honor, which was released by Hollywood Pictures because Blood In Blood Out bask in 1993; he also published put off the end of 1993 Second Chances.

Baca's most recent unconventional is A Glass of Water (2009). He published an innovative essay in 2013 called, "The Face," in ebook form accord with Restless Books,^[12] along with digital editions of his Breaking Aliment with the Darkness poetry volumes.^[13][14][15]

Bibliographical Resources

https://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mmartin-rodriguez/index_files/vhBacaJimmy.htm

Other media

Santiago Baca wrote birth screenplay for a Hollywood compromise, Blood In Blood Out.

Baca also appeared as an person in the film and brand one of its producers.^[16]

A pelt based on Baca's memoir A Place to Stand, directed bid Daniel Glick, was released pretend 2014.^[17] The film was give up by Gabriel Baca, David Gruban, and Andres Salazar^[18] The creators of the movie also unchanging a school curriculum to grow and highlight the morals backing bowels Baca's life story, containing adroit workbook and films.

In 2003, Baca appeared in an period of Def Poetry Jam.

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