A Place to Stand is a documentary adaptation of Jimmy Santiago Baca's best-selling memoir of the same name. Jimmy is an award-winning poet/novelist whose career began incarcerated in Arizona’s maximum security Florence State Prison. Orphan and former drug dealer, Jimmy entered prison illiterate, only to develop a hunger to be educated.

Denied any prison education, his self-taught passion for writing ignited and over the past 35 years he’s become one of the foremost poets in the world. Through the transformative power of poetry, he was able to explore and preserve his humanity. A Place to Stand demonstrates how writing saved Jimmy’s life, redeemed his past, and shaped his future.

Praise for 'A Place to Stand, the memoir'

"An astonishing narrative that affirms the triumph of the human spirit" - Arizona Daily Star

"Elegant and Gripping" - Los Angeles Times
"A hell of a book, quite literally. You won't soon forget it." - The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Brutally unflinching" - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

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