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In the tradition of Pablo Neruda, Set This Book On Fire! combines stunning lyrical intensity with pointed commitment to America's dispossessed.
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Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1952. His books of poetry include Immigrants In Our Own Land, Black Mesa Poems, Martin and Other Meditations on the South Valley, and The Erotic Poems. As a screenwriter and film producer, his credits include Bound By Honor, Blood In Blood Out, Mexican Roots, The Pancho Gonzales Story, and El Chamaco. His awards include the National Endowment for Poetry Award, Vogelstein Foundation Award, National Hispanic Heritage Award, Berkeley Regents Award, Pushcart Prize, Southwest Book Award, and American Book Award. He lives with his two children in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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A first-rate literary tour de force. -- Andrei Codrescu
SET THIS BOOK ON FIRE! proves once again that Jimmy Santiago Baca is one of America's most powerful voices. Autobiographical, honest, searing and lyrical, it is as direct as a fiery arrow shot into the heart of the of the injustice and racism of this nation's penal system. With a language precise as a razor blade, without any trace of self-pity, with a wonderful fearless honesty, Baca sings of the kind of hope that only a courageous spirit can vision out of times and places that would crush most dreams. If there is any North American poet who might wear the mantle of Pablo Neruda, it is Jimmy Santiago Baca, a writer who is always growing, always stretching his field of vision, yet never forgetting to look back. -- Joseph Bruchac
What makes Jimmy Santiago Baca's work succeed is its honesty, a brutal honesty, as well as his original imagery and the passion of his writing. Moreover, a history is being written of a culture of poverty, which, except for a few poets, is absent in American poetry. -- Gary Soto
SET THIS BOOK ON FIRE! proves once again that Jimmy Santiago Baca is one of America's most powerful voices. Autobiographical, honest, searing and lyrical, it is as direct as a fiery arrow shot into the heart of the of the injustice and racism of this nation's penal system. With a language precise as a razor blade, without any trace of self-pity, with a wonderful fearless honesty, Baca sings of the kind of hope that only a courageous spirit can vision out of times and places that would crush most dreams. If there is any North American poet who might wear the mantle of Pablo Neruda, it is Jimmy Santiago Baca, a writer who is always growing, always stretching his field of vision, yet never forgetting to look back. -- Joseph Bruchac
What makes Jimmy Santiago Baca's work succeed is its honesty, a brutal honesty, as well as his original imagery and the passion of his writing. Moreover, a history is being written of a culture of poverty, which, except for a few poets, is absent in American poetry. -- Gary Soto
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- PublisherCedar Hill Pubns
- Publication date1999
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- ISBN 13 9781891812231
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