FRAY ANGÉLICO CHÁVEZ poet, priest, and artist [SOLD]

FRAY ANGÉLICO CHÁVEZ  poet, priest, and artist

Edited by Ellen McCracken

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 2000.  156 pages

From the Jacket flap

“New Mexico’s first native Franciscan priest, Fray Angélico Chávez (1910-1996), is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual.  The original essays collected here explore his wide-ranging cultural production: fiction, poetry,  architectural restoration, journalism, genealogy, translation, and painting and drawing.  Several essays discuss his approach to history, his archival research, and the way in which he re-centers ethnic identity in the prevalent Anglo-American master historical narrative.  Others examine how he used fiction to bring history alive and combined visual and verbal elements to enhance his narratives.  Two essays explore Chávez’s profession as a friar.  The collection ends with recollections by Thomas E. Chávez, historian and Fray Angélico’s nephew.”