03024cam a2200313 4500 463259994 TxAuBib 20201218120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802198556 0802198554 B008UX2G9C Amazon 67329a64-fba0-4b83-b7d4-3a40b22d0aed OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1267718 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952- C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans [Libby] : Poems. Grove Atlantic, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 16MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Poetry. HTML:<b>The award-winning poet and author of <i>A Place to Stand</i> crafts provocative portraits of addiction and the Mexican American experience.</b><br /> <br /> Jimmy Santiago Baca's brilliantly received memoir, <i>A Place to Stand</i>, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped—and continues to inform—his raw, incisive voice.<br /> <br /> A heart-stopping series of episodes about addiction, <i>C-Train</i> features Dream Boy, a young man who finds himself seduced, and later enslaved, by the siren song of cocaine. Part paean to the delicious power of intoxication, part lament for those helplessly under its power, <i>C-Train</i> is a ride its hero, and the reader, struggle to get off.<br /> <br /> In <i>Thirteen Mexicans</i>, Baca writes of the Chicano community and the gulf between the American dream and American reality. In searing, elegiac vignettes he portrays the raw beauty of life in the barrio and the surreal, stomach-turning moment when people of color must confront how they are reflected in the distorted mirror of white society. Giving voice to the dispossessed and the disenfranchised, Baca confirms his place as one of the nation's leading poets, whose words "heal, inspire, and elicit the earthly response of love" (Garrett Hongo).<br /> <br /> "[Baca] writes with . . . an intense lyricism and that transformative vision which perceives the mythic and archetypal significance of life-events." —Denise Levertov<br /> <br /> "[Baca] travels outward and inward as a Chicano in America, with all the complications that the identity entails. . . . [He is] a poet in control of his craft . . . whose voice, brutal yet tender, is unique in America." —<i>The Nation</i>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-18 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/c-train-dream-boy-s?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/c-train-dream-boy-s?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/c-train-dream-boy-s?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)