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the making of a poet

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A place to stand

the making of a poet

1st ed.
  • 86 Want to read
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"Jimmy Santiago Baca, winner of the Pushcart Prize and the American Book Award, has been called an heir to Pablo Neruda and one the best poets in America today. At the age of twenty-one, however, he was illiterate and facing five to ten years in a maximum-security prison for selling drugs. Five years later he emerged from prison with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry.

A Place to Stand is his memoir of childhood on small farms in New Mexico, his adolescence spent in orphanages and detention centers, his years as a drug dealer in San Diego and Arizona, and his extraordinary personal transformation under harrowing conditions behind bars."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
264

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Cover of: A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand
June 10, 2002, Grove Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: En suelo firme
En suelo firme: el nacimiento de un poeta
2002, Alfaguara/Santillana
in Spanish
Cover of: A place to stand
A place to stand: the making of a poet
2001, Grove Press
in English - 1st papreback ed.
Cover of: A Place To Stand
A Place To Stand
June 30, 2001, Mountain Press Publishing Company
Hardcover in English
Cover of: A place to stand
A place to stand: the making of a poet
2001, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54, B
Library of Congress
PS3552.A254 Z473 2001, PS3552.A254Z473 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
264 p. ;
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6790137M
Internet Archive
placetostandmaki00baca
ISBN 10
0802116027
LCCN
00051400
OCLC/WorldCat
45243257
Library Thing
13127
Goodreads
1792612

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