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Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet - Softcover

Baca, Jimmy Santiago

 
9780802139085: Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802139086 ISBN 13: 9780802139085
Verlag: Grove Press, 2002

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Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one and facing five to ten years behind bars for selling drugs. A Place to Stand is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary -- much of it spent in isolation -- with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. A vivid portrait of life inside a maximum-security prison and an affirmation of one man's spirit in overcoming the most brutal adversity, A Place to Stand "stands as proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives" -- (Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram). "A Place to Stand is a hell of a book, quite literally. You won't soon forget it." -- Luis Urrea, The San Diego Union-Tribune "This book will have a permanent place in American letters." -- Jim Harrison

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Verlag
Grove Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802139086
ISBN 13 
9780802139085
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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