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New Documentary Captures Life Of Chicano Poet

  

A documentary based on a memoir by Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca is set to debut.

"A Place to Stand" is scheduled to be screened in Santa Fe on Saturday and follows the life of Baca from Estancia, New Mexico, to his time in the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona. It covers his rise from a nearly illiterate convicted criminal to one of the most recognized Mexican-American writers in the country.

Director Daniel Glick says he got the idea for the documentary after visiting a New York prison and reading Baca's memoir.

The film took more than three years to make and was produced after a social media campaign to raise money.

Baca is known for such collections of poetry as "Poems Taken from My Yard."

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