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1989
5.0(8 reviews)
Publisher: New Directions
126 pages
ISBN: 978-0811211024
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Black Mesa Poems

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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). 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.

Book Information

Title:Black Mesa Poems
Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
Series:Poetry Collections
Published:1989
Pages:126
ISBN-10:9780811211024
ISBN-13:978-0811211024

Series Progress

This book is part of the Poetry Collections series.