A place to stand
the making of a poet
Prisons, united states
Ex-convicts
Poets, biography
American Poets
Prisons
Mexican Americans
Biografía
Biography
"Jimmy Santiago Baca, winner of the Pushcart Prize and the American Book Award, has been called an heir to Pablo Neruda and one the best poets in America today. At the age of twenty-one, however, he was illiterate and facing five to ten years in a maximum-security prison for selling drugs. Five year…
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