A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet by Jimmy Santiago Baca

A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet

Jimmy Santiago Baca

264 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir poetry emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent t...

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