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 ProseAcknowledgmentsFelipe Maximiliano Chacón: A Literary GenealogyA. Gabriel MeléndezPoetics and Their Politics in the Lyric Work of Felipe M. ChacónAnna M. NogarNotes to the Spanish and English Editions of Poesía y prosaAnna M. Nogar and A. Gabriel MeléndezSpanish Transcription of Poesía y prosaEnglish Translation of Poesía y prosaAppendix

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."—Anita Huizar-Hernández, author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West"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."—John M. Nieto-Phillips, author of The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s