Black Mesa Poems (New Directions Paperbook)

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Book Overview

Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987).... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811211029
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: New Directions
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

An Outstanding Book by a Great Poet

This work focuses on Baca's deep connection to his homeland of New Mexico. The poems show a profound understanding of the connections which have developed between the rugged landscape and the people who inhabit it. Baca has found a trove of metaphors for life and living in that environment, yet never succumbs to flaccid sentimentality in his poems. This book has a very special quality: it is accessible to every fan and student of poetry---indeed, it often speaks to you seemingly without your having to read it.