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DESCRIPTION:I am a witness, not a victim... My role as a witness is to give voice to 
 the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, of which I am one." —Jimmy Santiago 
 Baca, A Place to Stand. 2001.\n\nAward-winning memoirist, poet, and 
 activist Jimmy Santiago Baca's first novel, A Glass of Water, is a gripping 
 tale of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers us a glimpse 
 into the tragedies unfurling at this very moment on our country’s 
 borders.  \n\nThe promise of a new beginning brings Casimiro and Nopal 
 together when they are young immigrants, each having made the nearly deadly 
 journey across the border from Mexico. They settle into a life of long days 
 in the chili fields and in a few years their happy union yields two sons, 
 Lorenzo and Vito. But when Nopal is brutally murdered, the boys are left to 
 navigate life in this brave but capricious world without her. \n\n\n“This 
 book is the best antidote around to the sorrowful, dehumanizing discourse 
 on undocumented immigrants going on in Washington.” —Ilan 
 Stavans\n\n\nAbout the author:\n\nBorn in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican 
 descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later 
 sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13, it was after Baca was sentenced 
 to five years in a maximum security prison that he began to turn his life 
 around: he learned to read and write and unearthed a voracious passion for 
 poetry.  During a fateful conflict with another inmate, Jimmy was shaken by 
 the voices of Neruda and Lorca, and made a choice that would alter his 
 destiny.    Instead of becoming a hardened criminal, he emerged from prison 
 a writer. Baca sent three of his poems to Denise Levertov, the poetry 
 editor of Mother Jones.  The poems were published and became part of  
 Immigrants in Our Own Land,  published in 1979, the year he was released 
 from prison. He earned his GED later that same year. He is the winner of 
 the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic 
 Heritage Award and for his memoir A Place to Stand the prestigious 
 International Award. In 2006 he won the Cornelius P. Turner Award.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/18/18629091.php
SUMMARY:Book Launch, A Glass of Water by Jimmy Santiago Baca
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore\n888 Valencia St.\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/18/18629091.php
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