Title 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

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages) Series Querencias Querencias Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Pictorial works Mexican Americans -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Poetry Mexican Americans Mexican Americans -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions Mexican-American Border Region -- Pictorial works Mexican-American Border Region -- Poetry Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Genre/Form poetry. Pictorial works Poetry Poetry. Poésie. Form Electronic book Author Herrera, Spencer R., 1972- Essays. Selections Kaiser, Robert, 1950- Photographs. Selections Romero, Levi. Poems. Selections ISBN 9780826353542 0826353541 9780826353559 082635355X

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