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When I Walk Through That Door, I Am

When I Walk Through That Door, I Am

An Immigrant Mother's Quest for Freedom

Poet-activist Jimmy Baca immerses the reader in an epic narrative poem, imagining the experience of motherhood in the context of immigration, family separation, and ICE raids on the Southern border
Product Code: 6879
ISBN: 9780807059357
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published Date: 02/19/2019
Pages: 88
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Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: "I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts," she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him.
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PART II

AUTHOR'S NOTE
Sae-Po (everything we know about them is wrong)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Jimmy Baca's new book brilliantly reimagines the epic poem-and reshapes the epic hero as a young immigrant woman struggling to escape violence and find the child that has been torn away from her. A work that speaks strikingly and passionately of our times." -Richard Blanco

"[Baca] writes with unconcealed passion . . . both an intense lyricism and transformative vision." -Denise Levertov

"[Baca's] voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America." -Ilan Stavans, The Nation

"What makes [Baca's poetry] a success is its honesty, a brutal honesty, as well as his original imagery and the passion of his writing." -Gary Soto, The San Francisco Chronicle

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Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: "I keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts," she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him.
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PART I

PART II

AUTHOR'S NOTE
Sae-Po (everything we know about them is wrong)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Jimmy Baca's new book brilliantly reimagines the epic poem-and reshapes the epic hero as a young immigrant woman struggling to escape violence and find the child that has been torn away from her. A work that speaks strikingly and passionately of our times." -Richard Blanco

"[Baca] writes with unconcealed passion . . . both an intense lyricism and transformative vision." -Denise Levertov

"[Baca's] voice, brutal and tender, is unique in America." -Ilan Stavans, The Nation

"What makes [Baca's poetry] a success is its honesty, a brutal honesty, as well as his original imagery and the passion of his writing." -Gary Soto, The San Francisco Chronicle

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