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A Place to Stand
A Place to Stand | Jimmy Santiago Baca
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In an extraordinary memoir, one of America's leading poets describes his youth in New Mexico, his troubled adolescence, his years as a drug dealer in Arizona and San Diego, and the personal redemption that occurred after he was arrested and sent to serve five to ten years in a maximum-security penitentiary. Reprint.
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smalldogs_bigbooks2419
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Do college level English courses always choose depressing memoirs as their required reading? This one is about an illiterate prison inmate stuck in solitary confinement. 🥺

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alexa_d
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"I wonder how long I've had this book without reading it…

…oh right, high school writers' workshop. His speech made me cry." ?

#SeptemberTBR #LatinxAuthors #signed #memoir

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Raer_one
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Great

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My goal is to read four books over the break, starting with this one. Memoir of his life and time spent in a maximum security prison to become a great poet. Illiterate at the age of 21, and emerged from prison with the ability to read and write poetry. Was recommended for AP Lang (at least the documentary, the book may be to raw for a classroom).

MrBook Interesting cover! 8y
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hwheaties
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Oh hey awesome guest speaker!
#TeachersofLitsy
#CLAS16

Bookworm83 I was there, too 😄 8y
hwheaties @Bookworm83 Were you?? I presented in the afternoon! 8y
Bookworm83 Oh wow! I went the "hard to learn, hard to teach." How cool! 8y
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Leelee.reads
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So brutal that I found myself not wanting to believe it was a true story. Award winning poet Jimmy Baca's memoir of his traumatic childhood and later years in prison is devastating in the descriptions of dehumanizing experiences he suffered. After such searing tragedies, I needed a longer epilogue to balance out the previous pages and help me decompress. I also need to reassess next time I'm feeling self-pity, look for beauty and buck the f* up.

ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Sounds like something I need to read 8y
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