El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacn and Poesa y prosa [Paperback]

El feliz ingenio neomexicanois a bilingual recovery edition ofObras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author.Anna M. Nogaris an associate professor in the University of New Mexico's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is the author, editor, and coeditor of several books, includingQuill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present;A History of Mexican Literature; andSisters in Blue: Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico / Hermanas de Azul: Sor María de Ágreda viene a Nuevo México(UNM Press).

A. Gabriel Meléndezis a Distinguished University Professor and the former director of the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico. Meléndez is the author, editor, and coeditor of numerous books, includingThe Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico;Santa Fe Nativa: A Collection of Nuevomexicano Writing(UNM Press); andThe Writings of Eusebio Chacón(UNM Press).El feliz ingenio neomexicanois 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 ofForging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West