{"id":993,"date":"2026-01-03T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/a-place-to-stand-baca-jimmy-santiago\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:07:48","slug":"a-place-to-stand-baca-jimmy-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/a-place-to-stand-baca-jimmy-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place to Stand – Baca, Jimmy Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA Place to Stand<\/em> is about place in the largest, most flexible sense of the term: as home, but also as the soil of one\u2019s roots and as the literary pantheon into which one fits. In that sense the book belongs to the subgenre of prison tales for which the twentieth century was fertile ground . . . from The Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em> to Vaclav Havel\u2019s diaries . . . [Baca is a poet who] travels outward and inward as a Chicano in America, with all the complications that the identity entails . . . a poet in control of his craft . . . whose voice, brutal yet tender, is unique in America . . . one worth paying attention to. [A Place to Stand]<\/em> is a luminous book that is at once brave and heartbreaking . . . a thunderous artifact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBaca chronicles his brutal experiences with riveting exactitude and remarkable evenhandedness. An unwilling participant in the horrific warfare that rages within prison walls and a rebel who refused to be broken by a vicious and corrupt system, Baca taught himself to read and write, awoke to the voice of the soul, and converted \u2018doing time\u2019 into a profoundly spiritual pursuit. Poetry became a lifeline, and Baca\u2019s harrowing story will stand among the world\u2019s most moving testimonies to the profound value of literature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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