Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," as City Paper noted, "its aridity and fertility, is nothing short of brilliant." The individual poems of Black Mesa are embedded both in the family and in the community life of the barrio, detailing births and deaths, neighbors and seasons, injustices and victories. Loosely interconnected, the poems trace a visionary biography of place.

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
ISBN: 9780811211024
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 7.94 x 0.40
Number Of Pages: 126
Publication Year: 1989

Black Mesa Poems

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