Singing at the gates : selected poems / Santiago Baca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxv, 251 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2014]

Contents:

Excerpts from the Mariposa Letters 1

December Nights 26

This Voice Within Me 27

Looking 28

Excerpt from Letter to Will Inman, 5 May 1977 29

From Swords of Darkness

The Young Men Are Laughing 33

A Desire 36

I Turn My Little Fan On 38

Walking Down to Town and Back 40

Rude 46

From What's Happening

What's Happening 51

I Applied for the Board 55

Steel Doors of Prison 56

Overcrowding 57

Ah Rain! 59

The Rusting Sky 61

I Think of Little People 64

From Rockbook 3

We Prisoners 69

My Heart 70

Your Letter Slips Through the Opening in My Heart 71

The Distance We've Arrived At 72

Living My Other Life 73

Just Before Dawn 75

Dreaming About Freedom 76

Quetzal Feathers 79

Saturday 80

Things Unexplained 81

Silver Water Tower 82

With My Massive Soul I Open 84

A Handful of Earth, That Is All I Am 87

Tapestry of Downtown 89

Black Mare 90

New Day 91

From Set This Book on Fire!

Part 1 In '78 97

I've Taken Risks 98

I've Seen Too Many 100

This Dark Side 102

Let Me Give You a Portrait 105

I Put On My Jacket 108

I Have Roads in Me 109

Commitment 110

Part 2 In'88 113

Sunday Prayer 114

The Reason I Wake This Morning 116

Celebrate 117

In the Foothills 119

Grandma 120

At Lori's House in Wisconsin 122

It's an Easy Morning 125

Sometimes I Long for the Sweet Madness 127

I Move Through 128

I Am Uneasy 129

The First Hard Cold Rain 131

Part 3 In '98 137

Ghost Reading in Sacramento 138

The Truth Be Known 140

Poets Can Still Have a Good Heart 142

It Makes Sense to Me Now 144

I Wish My Life 147

The Journey Has Always Been 150

My Dog Barks 152

Another Poet I've Known 155

With Paz By the Fire Last Night 158

Set This Book on Fire! 162

Why and When and How 165

Rita Falling from the Sky 169

Smoking Mirrors 201

Singing at the Gates 218

Julia 229

This Disgusting War! 238

Against Despair 245.

Notes:

A selection of Santiago Baca's poetry spanning forty years.

ISBN:

9780802122100

0802122108

OCLC:

852223533