Martín ; &, Meditations on the South Valley / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; introduction by Denise Levertov.
1987
PS3552.A254 M37 1987
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Title
Martín ; &, Meditations on the South Valley / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; introduction by Denise Levertov.
Author
Uniform Title
Martín
ISBN
0811210316
9780811210317
0811210324 (pbk.)
9780811210324 (pbk.)
9780811210317
0811210324 (pbk.)
9780811210324 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : New Directions, 1987, c1986.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 104 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3552.A254 M37 1987
System Control No.
(OCoLC)15550276
Summary
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martin & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in the stubborn and beautiful world of the barrio. Jimmy Santiago Baca 'writes with unconcealed passion, ' Denise Levertov states in her introduction, 'but he is far from being a naive realist; what makes his writing so exciting to me is the way in which it manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythic and archetypal significance of life-events.'
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