num_pages: 126
description: Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," as City Paper noted, "its aridity and fertility, is nothing short of brilliant." The individual poems of Black Mesa are embedded both in the family and in the community life of the barrio, detailing births and deaths, neighbors and seasons, injustices and victories. Loosely interconnected, the poems trace a visionary biography of place.
language: English
title: Black Mesa Poems
titlecomplete: Black Mesa Poems
genres: Banned Books, Classics, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 195
publisher: New Directions/Norton