Un Trip Through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursiones (Pioneer (Arte Publico)) (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Raulrsalinas; Salinas, Raul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558852751 ISBN 13: 9781558852754

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 1999

Synopsis

Here is the long-awaited second edition of a pioneer work of Chicano literature, originally published as a collection in 1980 after individual poems by Salinas had appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies from the 1960s through the 1970s.These fifteen years of poetry forged in the heat of the Chicano Movement (a period Salinas spent, in part, in prison) reveal the growing politicization of intelligent and talented minority convicts incarcerated at a time when their communities were marching forward. As with Ricardo Sanchez and Jimmy Santiago Baca, prison bars were not strong enough to limit Salinas's highly lyric, even rhapsodic calls for liberation -- poems inspired by jazz, the Beat writers, nature, and political skirmishes.Un Trip through the Mind Jail will stand for generations as a seminal text of Chicano and U. S. minority literature.

About this title

About the Author

Raul Salinas today runs the Resistencia bookstore in Austin.

Reviews

Un Trip Through The Mind Jail Y Oltras Excursiones ($9.95 paperback original; Nov. 30; 192 pp.; 1-55885-275-1): For some years now Salinas has enjoyed a cult following as a kind of Tex-Mex Allen Ginsberg. A Chicano from Austin, Texas, who spent 15 years behind bars, Salinas was radicalized during his incarceration and eventually concluded that the pimps, thieves, murderers, and petty hoods he lived with in prison were the true victims of the white, capitalist society that had forced them down. After his release, Salinas went off on the classic 1960s ramble away from social responsibility in the name of social justice. Un Trip Through the Mind Jail (originally published in 1980 by an underground press in San Francisco) is his testament, and if it is a bit heavy on paeans to Fidel Castro and the Black Panthers, such was the spirit of the age in which he moved. The verse itself is an afterthought, but that's not a legitimate failing in what is a historical document above all else. -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558852751
• ISBN 13: 9781558852754
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 183
• Editor: Ybarra-Frausto Tomas