Sagrado : a photopoetics across the Chicano homeland / narrative Spencer R. Herrera ; photography Robert Kaiser ; poetry Levi Romero ; foreword Luis Valdez
Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
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 Chimayó, 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