by
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Robert
Burns Club of Milwaukee
Explore
this comprehensive Burns site for biographical
information, then scroll down to A Burns Songbook
and look up the sheet music to "A Red, Red Rose."
Have someone in your class bring in a musical
instrument and play the tune for everyone.
Interview
with Jimmy Santiago Baca
This
interview with poet Jimmy Santiago Baca reveals
much about his childhood and how he became a writer.
He says, "Words were like butterflies and I always
had spring inside my heart. I speak metaphorically,
of course. But words were magical prayers to me.
They were single stars that were... That came
out of people. In dark times it seemed that words
were really special to me." Discuss this comment
with your group and relate it to "I Am Offering
This Poem."
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