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Publishers Weekly (review date 2001)

SOURCE: Review of Healing Earthquakes: A Love Story in Poems, by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Publishers Weekly 248, no. 25 (18 June 2001): 78.

[In the following review, the unsigned critic comments favorably on the “intensely personal, contradictory, and completely forthcoming” love-inspired poems of Healing Earthquakes.]

Building on the achievement of the epic poem Martín & Meditations on the South Valley and his memoirs Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet in the Barrio and the forthcoming A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet, World Heavy-weight Poetry Bout champ Baca's new book-length work [Healing Earthquakes] is a sprawling journal of epic proportions. A series of small poems divided among five books, it explores the history of love in the poet's personal relationships: in (and not in) his childhood community (“as I am born again in the...

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1. Introduction
2. 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)
3. Further Reading
4. Copyright

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