A Place To Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
The Making of a Poet
A raw, lyrical memoir that follows a young Chicano's survival through abandonment, poverty, addiction, and incarceration, his self-education in prison where he learns to read and write and discovers poetry as a means of survival and transformation, and the difficult, triumphant work of reclaiming identity, family, and hope against a backdrop of violence, racism, and institutional dehumanization.
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