My Penitente Land: Reflections on Spanish New Mexico

My Penitente land: Reflections on Spanish New Mexico

Politics & Social Sciences

Chavez, Angelico

Social Sciences

University of New Mexico Press

Fray Angélico Chávez (1910-1996) was one of New Mexico's leading men of letters, and this anthology is the first collection of his fiction to be published since 1957. These stories, dismissed in the past as quaint and charming, actually represent the same serious cultural and socio-historical concerns that marked Chávez's more recent nonfiction. Although largely social allegories, they are also humorous evocations of life in New Mexico from colonial days to more recent times. Mystery and miracle, the wisdom of age and the impetuosity of youth, and the conflict of cultures that has marked life in New Mexico from the beginnings are the themes of these stories, which read, in many cases, like Hispano cuentos or Biblical parables.This book will delight readers new to Fray Angélico's fiction as well as those who are rediscovering him after many years."These 14 stories . . . skillfully evoke the contours of a complex local society . . . and disclose a vein of the Hispanic-American experience too little known by Anglos."--New York Times Book Review

The short stories of Fray Angelico Chavez

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Recounts the life of St. Francis of Assisi, who gave all his riches to the poor and devoted the rest of his life to the service of Lady Poverty.

The Song of Francis

Children's Books

NORTHLAND PRESS

Origins of New Mexico families in the Spanish colonial period: In two parts, the seventeenth (1598-1693) and the eighteenth (1693-1821) centuries

William Gannon

New Mexico triptych : being three panels and three accounts

History

Americas

W. Gannon

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happenethto them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11With these words, the epitaph Padre Martnez chose for himself, the reader is drawn into a stirring and provocative biography recounted by a master storyteller.Fray Angelico Chavez, articulate and well-versed in New Mexicana, vividly records the life of the controversial Padre of Taos so that the reader gains full measure of his surroundings and o the times.Martnez was continually at the forefront of the public and political forums . . . a master of jurisprudence and canon law . . . a champion of the underdog. With the advent of Bishop Lamy, public attention became focused on these two dynamic personalities. Their philosophic differences ultimately led to Martnez suspension and excommunication.Chavez was a curious and indefatigable researcher and he used these talents well while delving into the facts and legends surrounding Padre Martinez most poignant and colorful life-drama . . . a personality to be reckoned with, whether as hero or villain, or both.Readers will, at once, share with Chavez his absorption in this man and, also wonder . . . how such a phenomenon could have sprouted and bloomed under the most adverse circumstances of time and place.

But Time and Change: The Story of Padre Martinez of Taos, 1793-1867

Biographies & Memoirs

Chávez, Fray Angélico

Community & Culture

Sunstone Press

La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue

La Conquistadora: The Autobiography Of An Ancient Statue

Arts & Photography

Sculpture

Literary Licensing, LLC

Literary

He has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his career, Fray Ang lico Ch vez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest. In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Ch vez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed him. In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Ang lico managed to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the imprint of his religious perspective. During nearly seventy years of writing, he published almost two dozen books. Among them were novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories. All true aficionado's of the American Southwest's history and culture will profit by collecting and reading the significant body of work left to us by the remarkable Fray Ang 1ico Ch vez. Sunstone Press is now bringing back into print some of these rare titles.

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