El feliz ingenio neomexicano
El feliz ingenio neomexicano
Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa
Winner of the 2022 International Latino Book Award: Bronze Medal for Fiction Translation, Spanish to English
El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author. Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacón, part of a distinguished and active family of nuevomexicano authors, published the book in 1924. El feliz ingenio neomexicano (that "inspired New Mexican wit") reestablishes Chacón’s work and his reputation by making the text widely available to readers for the first time in nearly a century. With Nogar and Meléndez’s excellent translation of the text, this bilingual volume offers access to both English and Spanish editions for scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. Additionally, the in-depth introduction and appendix materials gathered by the editors place Chacón’s book in the context of the time in which it was printed, offering a unique insight into the work. A welcome volume for scholars and literature lovers alike, El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a groundbreaking work of literary recuperation.
El feliz ingenio neomexicano is 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.
This book shines a light on the fascinating life and literary works of Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, a fearless journalist and poet writing at the crossroads between tradition and modernity, local and global politics, and Spanish and English languages.
Anna M. Nogar is 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, including Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present; A History of Mexican Literature; and Sisters 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 Meléndez is 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, including The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico; Santa Fe Nativa: A Collection of Nuevomexicano Writing (UNM Press); and The Writings of Eusebio Chacón (UNM Press).
List of Poems and Prose
Acknowledgments
Felipe Maximiliano Chacón: A Literary Genealogy
A. Gabriel Meléndez
Poetics and Their Politics in the Lyric Work of Felipe M. Chacón
Anna M. Nogar
Notes to the Spanish and English Editions of Poesía y prosa
Anna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel Meléndez
Spanish Transcription of Poesía y prosa
English Translation of Poesía y prosa
Appendix
