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Jimmy Santiago Baca
(2 January 1952 / Santa Fe, New Mexico)
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Jimmy Santiago Baca of Apache and Chicano descent is an American poet and writer. more >>
 
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Rachell Pitrucha (11/1/2011 5:53:00 PM)
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I am a poetry student at NMHU and saw Jimmy Santiago Baca reach out to his community with all his heart. Although I am white and a transplant to the state of NM, I saw that the local young men really were toughed as was a young black guy from California. NM and all other states should have more inspirational artists like Jimmy coming to tell stories and read aloud to a community to which they relate to and we wouldn't have so much crime, misunderstanding and the damnation of the few good men who still exist amongst an all- too- often cruel world. Even as I could not relate to the culture since I didn't grow up here, Baca was an inspiration and example that people have the control to become who they want to be even when their past circumstances have all but withered their desire to live! Thanks Jimmy Santiago Baca for being an inspiration for a better life in NM and for the young people who don't have the comforts of life handed to them on a silver platter! !
Xandrix Baluyot (2/20/2007 10:55:00 PM)
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Willy, my old friend. I'm afraid you're mistaken, yet again... but I forgive you. And a poem is something like what Mr. Baca, a poet, made. The following is one of my favorite quotes from his poem 'Green Chile':

'I prefer...my eggs and potatoes for breakfast... in the wind... licking the breeze.'

Oh, and:

'But grandmother loves... sweating over the stove...for a dollar a bag...'

Those quotes really capture the true meaning of the poem, in my opinion.

*kfffffffff kfffffffff kfffffffff*

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