Set This Book on Fire

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

In the tradition of Pablo Neruda, Set This Book On Fire! combines stunning lyrical intensity with pointed commitment to America's dispossessed.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published September 30, 2001

About the author

Jimmy Santiago Baca of Apache and Chicano descent is an American poet and writer.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

It been a while since I have read but this book of poems like Other of Jimmy Santiago Baca is fierce, elegant, with some hard to swallow points of view. I have always enjoyed his work from the first time I read " The crying poem". This did not disappoint.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 B116s 2001