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Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems
Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems
Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems
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“This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious…righteous and prayerful” (Booklist).

Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail.

Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression.

“A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 7, 2014
ISBN9780802192905
Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems

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