Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio (Red Crane Literature Series)

Jimmy Santiago Baca; Illustrator-Adan Hernandez

ISBN 10: 1878610473 / ISBN 13: 9781878610478

Published by Red Crane Books, 1994

About this Item

Flat-signed by author on first page in black ink, no creases in spine, light edge wear on cover, text tight and unmarked, soiling on top edge, good plus to very good minus condition, 2nd print.

Seller Inventory # 29055

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio (Red Crane Literature Series)
• Publisher: Red Crane Books
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878610473
• ISBN 13: 9781878610478
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Hernandez, Adan
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 9 ounces
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Memoir

About this title

Synopsis

Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, his role as a witness for the misunderstood tribal life of the barrio, and his redemptive vocation as a poet.

About the Author

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1952. His parents abandoned him at the age of two, and he lived with his grandmother for several years before being placed in an orphanage. A runaway at age thirteen, Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison at the age of twenty-one for drug offenses. It was in prison that he learned to read and write and began to compose poetry. His book Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, a pair of long narrative poems, won an American Book Award in 1988. In addition to his poetry collections and stories, Baca wrote the screenplay for the movie Bound by Honor, which was released by Hollywood Pictures in 1993.