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Jimmy Santiago Baca and Elizabeth Farnsworth (interview date 2001)

SOURCE: Baca, Jimmy Santiago, and Elizabeth Farnsworth. “Jimmy Santiago Baca.” Online News Hour (9 August 2001): <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/conversation/july-dec01/baca?8-09.html>

[In the following interview, Baca mentions his memoirs, love of language, poetic collection Healing Earthquakes, and eclectic writing methods.]

[Farnsworth:] The writer Jimmy Santiago Baca has two new books out this summer: Healing Earthquakes which is a collection of love poetry, and A Place to Stand, a memoir of his childhood in New Mexico and his six years in a maximum security prison after being convicted, wrongly he says, of possession of drugs with intent to sell. Santiago Baca taught himself to read and write and published his first poetry while there. Since...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Ron Arias (review date 1982)
   2. Michael Hogan (review date 1983)
   3. Liam Rector (review date 1988)
   4. Julián Olivares (essay date 1988)
   5. Scott Slovic (review date 1991)
   6. Jimmy Santiago Baca (essay date 1992)
   7. Jimmy Santiago Baca and John Keene (interview date 1993)
   8. Robert Franklin Gish (essay date 1996)
   9. George Moore (essay date 1998)
   10. Publishers Weekly (review date 2001)
   11. Donna Seaman (review date 2001)
   12. Jimmy Santiago Baca and Elizabeth Farnsworth (interview date 2001)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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