Description
Book SynopsisA bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacon, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesia y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author. Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacon, part of a distinguished and active family of nuevomexicano authors, published the book in 1924.
Trade ReviewEl feliz ingenio neomexicano is an important and beautiful recovery not only of one man's captivating literary contribution, but also of its significance within the pivotal time and tumultuous world of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US Southwest."—Anita Huizar-Hernández, author of
Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West"This book shines a light on the fascinating life and literary works of Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, a fearless journalist and poet writing at the crossroads between tradition and modernity, local and global politics, and Spanish and English languages."—John M. Nieto-Phillips, author of
The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930sTable of Contents
- List of Poems and Prose
- Acknowledgments
- Felipe Maximiliano Chacón: A Literary Genealogy
- A. Gabriel Meléndez
- Poetics and Their Politics in the Lyric Work of Felipe M. Chacón
- Anna M. Nogar
- Notes to the Spanish and English Editions of Poesía y prosa
- Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez
- Spanish Transcription of Poesía y prosa
- English Translation of Poesía y prosa
- Appendix
