Into Death Bravely
"Into Death Bravely" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Black Mesa Poems. Copyright © 1989 by Jimmy Santiago Baca. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp., www.ndpublishing.com.
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Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca b. 1952
POET’S REGION U.S., Southwestern
Subjects Nature, Winter, Living, Death
Poetic Terms Imagery, Epigram, Free Verse, Pastoral
Biography
Born in 1952 in Santa Fe of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was abandoned by his parents and at 13 ran away from the orphanage where his grandmother had placed him. He was convicted on drug charges in 1973 and spent five years in prison. There he learned to read and began writing poetry. His semiautobiographical novel in verse, Martin and Meditations on the South Valley (1987), received the 1988 Before Columbus . . .
Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Winter, Living, Death
POET’S REGION U.S., Southwestern
Poetic Terms Imagery, Epigram, Free Verse, Pastoral
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