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Travel

Crete, Sunday School, a room full of Rembrandts

April 1980

Three

He abandoned desire. The flowers grew slowly around the hole in his chest. When his lover sighed, they trembled.

Editor’s Note

An Interview With Jimmy Santiago Baca

On Writing, Prison, and The Human Spirit

But you can’t look to the institutions of learning for the moral way of living. You have to look at those people that mix pluses and minuses together to get some weird, weird formula. And that’s exactly how I try to live. I try to mix the moon with the sun, and the stars with the water. And I try to come up with a new universe.

There But For The God Of Grace Go I

He decided that if looking into the darkness could evoke both bears with frying pans and wonderful fantasy worlds, then it was all a matter of the manner in which he went about looking that determined what would confront him. He was still scared of the dark so he limited his looking to moments of strong neurotic necessity, but the vision had been so powerful he never again seriously considered brick and mortar as being in any way, shape or form representational of reality.

Sunbeams

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.

Nietzsche

First Sexual Experience

In the tall broomsedge, in a nearly finished new house, in a tent

A Certain Knowledge

Selected Poems

Home

My fear of my father, my piano, my unsuppressible nomadic tendencies