C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans: Poems

The award-winning poet and author of A Place to Stand crafts provocative portraits of addiction and the Mexican American experience.

Jimmy Santiago Baca's brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped—and continues to inform—his raw, incisive voice.

A heart-stopping series of episodes about addiction, C-Train features Dream Boy, a young man who finds himself seduced,...