Jimmy Santiago Baca with Carolyn Forché

When:  
Time:   		Wednesday 15 September 2010
7:00 pm 		Where:   Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 West San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Photo of Jimmy Santiago Baca, : Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca is a poet, memoirist, activist, and native New Mexican. His books include a memoir, A Place to St… Read full bio.

: Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit in 1950 and is the author of four books of poetry, the first of which, Gath… Read full bio.


About this Event

Jimmy Santiago Baca: A Glass of Water (book cover)

In each heart, to every one of them, I remain a green-feathered parrot in a golden cage of memory, but when I was living each day was a smattering of eggshell fragments smeared with predator’s saliva. La Muerte, or Death, prowled the margins of my days, peering out from bounty hunter eyes, INS patrols, vigilante groups, and ICE and border patrol agents.

- From A Glass of Water.

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Jimmy Santiago Baca read from his work, then joined in conversation with Carolyn Forche | Duration: 1:25:35 | Download this
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Jimmy Santiago Baca read from his work, introduction by Carolyn Forche
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