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.
About the author
Levi Romero, New Mexico Centennial Poet Laureate and a 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, 2008).
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