Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Book Overview

A romantic and a populist, Jimmy Santiago Baca celebrates nature and creativity: the power of "becoming more the river than myself" in Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande. These poems are an expansive meditation on Baca's spiritual life, punctuated always with his feetrepeatedly, rhythmicallyon the ground as he runs every morning along the river. Baca contemplates his old life, his new love, his family and friends, those living and those dead, injustices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081121575X
• ISBN13: 9780811215756
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"