Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande

A romantic and a populist, Jimmy Santiago Baca celebrates nature and creativity: the power of "becoming more the river than myself" in Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande. These poems are an expansive meditation on Baca's spiritual life, punctuated always with his feetrepeatedly, rhythmicallyon the ground as he runs every morning along the river. Baca contemplates his old life, his new love, his family and friends, those living and those dead, injustices and victories, and Chicano culture. As Denise Levertov remarked, Baca "writes with unconcealed passion" and "manifests both an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythical and archetypal significance of life events."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/17/2004
ISBN: 9780811215756
Pages: 101
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.29d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/26/2004 pg. 57
Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 87
Multicultural Review 09/01/2004 pg. 76
Kliatt 03/01/2005 pg. 32