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California State University, Fresno - CSUF FALL 2012 | ||
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A Place to Stand (Reprint Edition) by Jimmy Santiago Baca Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-8021-3908-6 / 0802139086 ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3908-5 / 9780802139085 Anyone who doubts the power of the written word to transform a life will know better after reading poet Jimmy Santiago Baca's wrenching memoir of his troubled youth and the five-year jail stint that turned him around. When he enters New Mexico's Florence State Prison in 1973, convicted on a drug |