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Black Mesa Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Mexican American authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1989.
- Summary:
- Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987).
- Contents:
- Dream come early
- Old man
- From violence to peace
- Roots
- Dream instructions
- Jaguar head
- Leaps
- Dust-bowl memory
- Day's blood
- Drawing light
- The other side of the mountain
- Into death bravely
- Hitchhiker
- Knowing the snow another way
- Too much of a good thing
- Knowing when
- Birthing work
- Praise
- Bells
- A god loosened
- Main character
- As children know
- Spring
- At night
- God's coming
- Matanza to welcome spring
- Llano Vaqueros
- Green chile
- Sweet revenge
- A good day
- What we don't tell the children
- What's real and what's not
- Old woman
- Wishes
- Choices
- Family ties
- Picking piñons
- Work we hate and dreams we love
- Accountability
- Perfecto Flores
- Invasions
- Mi Tío Baca el poeta de Socorro
- Child of the sun, Gabriel's birth (Sun prayer)
- Personal prayers
- Since you've come
- What could have been and what is
- Voz de la gente
- BJ
- Custom
- El sapo
- News
- A field of clover
- Influences
- Toward the light
- Tomás Lucero
- Bedtime story to the boys
- On blood and bone
- Wind
- September
- Fall
- I am here
- A better life
- A daily joy to be alive
- Black Mesa
- Sanctuary.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 9780811223300
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