A Place To Stand
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A Place To Stand
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
A Place To Stand written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Pushcart Prize–winning poet’s memoir of his criminal youth and years in prison: a “brave and heartbreaking” tale of triumph over brutal adversity (The Nation). Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “astonishing narrative” of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in the maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim. An important chronicle that “affirms the triumph of the human spirit,” it went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize (Arizona Daily Star). Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one when he was sentenced to five years in Florence State Prison for selling drugs in Arizona. This raw, unflinching memoir is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation—with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. “Proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon forget it.” —The San Diego U-T “This book will have a permanent place in American letters.” —Jim Harrison, New York Times–bestselling author of A Good Day to Die
A Place To Stand
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Release Date : 2001-06-30
A Place To Stand written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Mountain Press Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A Place to Stand, the wrenching memoir of Jimmy Santiago Baca, details how the written word helped him overcome a life of violence, bigotry, and crime. Now an internationally acclaimed writer and winner of the Pushcart Prize and American Book Award, Baca describes the extreme measures he took to survive on the street and in prison and how poetry became an essential element of his newfound sense of self.
A Place To Stand
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2001
A Place To Stand written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent to serve five to ten years in a maximum-security penitentiary.
Old Friend From Far Away
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Author : Natalie Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-03-10
Old Friend From Far Away written by Natalie Goldberg and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work "Writing Down the Bones," Goldberg reaffirms her status as one of the foremost teachers by redefining the practice of writing memoir.
Singing At The Gates
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-01-07
Singing At The Gates written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Poetry categories.
“This fiery retrospective collection” of poetry by the acclaimed Chicano-American author of A Place to Stand is “warm and furious...righteous and prayerful” (Booklist). Award-winning writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is lauded for his talent in weaving personal and political threads to create a pertinent and poignant narrative. He addresses universal issues with passion, grace, and vivid sensory detail. Singing at the Gates is a collection of Baca’s work stretching across four decades—poems that revitalize the national dialogue: raging against war and imprisonment, celebrating family and the bonds of friendship, heightening appreciation for and consciousness of the environment. A career-spanning selection, it includes poems drawn from Baca’s first chapbook, letters he wrote from prison to a woman named Mariposa, and recent meditations on the significance of breaking through oppression. “A poet whose voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America.”—The Nation
Finding A Place To Stand Developing Self Reflective Institutions Leaders And Citizens
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Author : Edward R. Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
Release Date : 2019-09-12
Finding A Place To Stand Developing Self Reflective Institutions Leaders And Citizens written by Edward R. Shapiro and has been published by Phoenix Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-12 with Psychology categories.
What stands between us and authoritarianism seems increasingly fragile. Democratic practices are under attack by foreign intrusion into elections; voter suppression restricts citizen participation. Nations are turning to autocratic leaders in the face of rapid social change. Democratic values and open society can only be preserved if citizens can discover and claim their voices. We access society through our organisations, yet the collective voices and irrationalities of these organisations do not currently offer clear pathways for individuals to locate themselves. How can we move through the mounting chaos of our social systems, through our multiple roles in groups and institutions, to find a voice that matters? What kind of perspective will allow institutional leaders to facilitate the discovery of active citizenship and support engagement? This book draws on psychodynamic systems thinking to offer a new understanding of the journey from being an individual to joining society as a citizen. With detailed stories, the steps – and the conscious and unconscious linkages – from being a family member, to entering outside groups, to taking up and making sense of institutional roles, illuminate the process of claiming the citizen role. With the help of leaders who recognise and utilise the dynamics of social systems, there may be hope for us as citizens to use our institutional experiences to discover a place to stand.
The Importance Of A Piece Of Paper
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2004
The Importance Of A Piece Of Paper written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
Contains eight short fiction stories that explore the clash between Old World traditions and New World ambitions by award-winning American author Jimmy Santiago Baca.
The Stand
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Author : Stephen King
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2008-06-24
The Stand written by Stephen King and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Fiction categories.
#1 BESTSELLER • The apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting—and eerily plausible—as when it was first published. • The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.
A Lever And A Place To Stand
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Author : Richard Rohr
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 2014-05-14
A Lever And A Place To Stand written by Richard Rohr and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Religion categories.
Explores the challenges, the rewards, the call, and the possibilities of integrating a sincere inner life with an active life of engagement with the pain of the world.
Spring Poems Along The Rio Grande
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Author : Jimmy Santiago Baca
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Spring Poems Along The Rio Grande written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and the natural world are revealed, chronicling and expanding upon those in his recent Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande. In Spring Poems the words of the river "rise around thorny thickets / then descend again into the burbling stubble," and the poet surrenders himself to this place where his own words are woven by "a thumbnail-sized yellow spider/ with poppy seed eyes."--Amazon.com.