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- ↑ Baca, Jimmy Santiago (1979). Immigrants in Our Own Land. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-8071-0572-4.
- ↑ Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Immigrants in our own land & selected early poems. Vol. 701. New Directions Publishing, 1990.
- ↑ Jimmy Santiago Baca and Cedar Tree (2016). "About Jimmy Santiago Baca" . Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ↑ "LitCharts". LitCharts. Retrieved 2022-06-25.