Cantares: Canticles and Poems of Youth 1925-1932 (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)

Fray (or Friar) Angelico Chavez of New Mexico gained wide renown as an artist & man of letters, but he was especially esteemed for his poetry, including religious-themed collections such as Clothed with the Sun (1939), Eleven Lady-Lyrics & Other Poems (1945), & The Single Rose: Poems of Divine Love (1948). Cantares: Canticles & Poems of Youth now makes available to readers for the first time scores of poems composed during the years 1925 through 1932 & gathered privately by the poet. Written in English (save for a handful composed in Latin & Spanish), these poems were grouped by Fray Angelico himself under the headings of Cantares de Cibola (verse on Southwestern themes); Cantares de Maria (poems about & to the Virgin Mary); Cantares Franciscanos (on St. Francis & the Franciscan order); & Cantares Varios (on diverse subjects, primarily religious but including, for example, a "Sonnet on Reading Macbeth" & the lyric "To a Diminutive Chickadee"). Longer works in the collection include "A Litany of Pueblos" & the six-part "Vignettes from the Life of Saint Anthony".Angelico Chavez is the author of 'Cantares: Canticles and Poems of Youth 1925-1932 (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)' with ISBN 9781558853119 and ISBN 1558853111.