Jimmy Santiago Baca | |
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 Baca during the videotaping of Add-Verse, 2004 | |
| Born | January 2, 1952 Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable works | Martin and Meditations on the South Valley |
| Notable awards | American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, International Hispanic Heritage Award, International Award. |
| Spouse | Married |
| Website | |
| www | |
Jimmy Santiago Baca (born January 2, 1952) is an American poet, memoirist, and screenwriter from New Mexico.[1][2]
- ^ "Jimmy Santiago Baca, Compton College guest speaker". Compton Herald. October 15, 2018.
- ^ Some editions of Baca's work (e.g. Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004) include references to Apache descent in biographical information, and collections such as Martín & Meditations on the South Valley (1987) include poems in a "detribalized" Apache persona which Denise Levertov describes in her introduction to that work as "semi-autobiographical." However, Baca is not a citizen of the Apache nation and does not claim this identity in more recent autobiographical materials such as on his website.