About Jimmy Santiago Baca: Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American poet and writer of Apache and Chicano descent.
And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.
