Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland

Un lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimay , a curandero's shrine in South Texas, or at a binational Mass along the border. Sagrado is neither a search for identity nor a quest for a homeland but an affirmation of an ever-evolving cultural landscape. Embedded at the heart of this remarkable book, in which prose, photographs, and poems complement each other, is a photopoetic journey across the Chicano Southwest.

Author: Spencer R. Herrera, Levi Romero
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 10/30/2013
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 11.90h x 9.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780826353542
Award: New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards - Winner

About the Author
Herrera, Spencer R.: -

Spencer R. Herrera is an associate professor of Spanish at New Mexico State University

Kaiser, Robert: -

Robert Kaiser is a freelance photographer in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Romero, Levi: -

Levi Romero, New Mexico Centennial Poet Laureate and research scholar in the Chicano Studies program at the University of New Mexico, is the author of A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (UNM Press) and In the Gathering of Silence.