Jimmy Santiago Baca (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
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Jimmy Santiago Baca has drawn extensively on the difficult circumstances of his early years and on his involvement with the social and political concerns of his cultural community in his poetry. The autobiographical orientation of his writing often results in a placing of prose commentary amid poetry. Similarly, in his memoir Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio (1992), essays and reflective accounts of his experiences are blended with passages of poetic intensity. His contributions to collections such as Between the Lines:...
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