Description
Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border. Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: "I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts," she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him.
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/19/2019
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780807059357
ISBN10: 0807059358
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General
- Political Science | Public Policy | Immigration
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 02/19/2019
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780807059357
ISBN10: 0807059358
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General
- Political Science | Public Policy | Immigration
About the Author
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American poet, teacher, and activist of Apache and Chicano descent, and holds a number of awards for his easily accessible writing style and activism. He is the author of A Place to Stand, which was developed into a documentary film about his life, airing on PBS.