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When I Walk Through That Door, I am:an Immigrant Mother's Quest
[Paperback - 2019]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Public Policy - Writing Skills
Publisher: Beacon Press | ISBN: 9780807059357 | Pages: 88
Shipping Weight: .091 | Dimensions: 4.96 x .25 x 6.97 inches

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.

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.

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American poet, teacher, and activist of Apache and Chicano descent, and holds a number of awards for his easily accessible writing style and activism. He is the author of A Place to Stand, which was developed into a documentary film about his life, airing on PBS.

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