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Healing Earthquakes : a Love Story in Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An award-winning collection of poems that vividly capture the astonishing emotional range of an entire romance from beginning to end.   Jimmy Santiago Baca introduces us to a man and woman before they are acquainted and re-creates their first meeting, falling in love, their decision to make a family, the eventual realization of each other’s irreconcilable faults, the resulting conflicts, the breakup and hostility, and, finally, their transcendence of the bitterness and resentment.   Throughout the relationship we are privy to the couple’s anguish of loneliness, the heady rush of new love, the irritations and joys of raising children, the difficulties in truly knowing someone, the doldrums of breakup, and so on. It is impossible not to identify with these characters and to recognize the universal drama of human connection. As he weaves this story, Baca explores many of his traditional themes: the beauty and cruelty of the desert lands where he spent much of his life, the grace and wisdom of animals, and the quiet dignity of life on small Chicano farms. An extraordinary work that “expresses both bliss and heartache with lyric intensity” from one of America’s finest poets (Booklist).

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Author

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802198549

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Erotica, Humanities