Immigrants in Our Own Land (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: José Santiago Baca
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Prisoners, Prisons, Mexican Americans, Survival
Immigrants in Our Own Land provides samples of Baca's early work, which is indeed prosy. The collection includes a number of so-called prose poems, description divided into prose paragraphs. Other poems are in free-verse lines. In both kinds of poems, however, the description is somewhat flat, including too much direct statement and metaphors which are commonplace or trite.
Similarly, the point of view in the poems is limited. Centered on Baca's prison experience, the poems dwell on the plight of the inmates—on how Baca and the other inmates are ground down—but there...
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