Incoming letters from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Denise Levertov, and "Mariposa, " 1976-1987.

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Incoming letters from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Denise Levertov, and "Mariposa, " 1976-1987.

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Twenty-four letters, some with poems, from Baca, 1976-1987. From prison in 1977 he writes about learning to write poetry, a prison riot and the national guard storming the prison as he writes. Three letters from Denise Levertov, 1980-1981. Four letters from Mariposa (Virginia Love Long), 1978-1979.

.25 linear ft. (31 letters)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-

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Jimmy Santiago Baca, an American writer, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on January 2, 1952. At the age of twenty-one he was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison for drug offenses. In prison he learned to read and write and began to compose poetry. His book Martin & Meditations on the South Valley, a pair of long narrative poems, won an American Book Award in 1988. In addition to his poetry collections and stories, Baca wrote the screenplay for the movie Bound by Honor, which w...

Moser, Norman

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Moser was editor of ILLUMINATIONS. Baca, a Chicano, was a prisoner in the Southwest, championed by Levertov. He has since had several books published by New Directions. Mariposa, friend of Baca, is a poet and translator of South American poetry. From the description of Incoming letters from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Denise Levertov, and "Mariposa, " 1976-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398124 Poet, author of "I Live in the South of My Heart" and "A Shaman's Songbook." ...

Long, Virginia Love

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Virginia Love Long (Virginia L. Rudder) was born in 1941 in Roxboro, N.C. She attended Catawba College, 1958-1961, and there met fellow student and poet Amon Liner. After college, she married Don Ray Bagby and pursued a journalism career, working primarily for the Roxboro, N.C., Courier-Times . She received numerous state and national awards for her work in poetry and journalism. She published her first book, After the Ifaluk and Other Poems in 1976, and another, The Gallows Lord, in 1978. As of...

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...