Levi Romero

About The Author

Levi Romero is an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works and Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland (both from UNM Press).

Books by Levi Romero

Querencia

Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland

Edited by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero and Herrera R. Spencer / Foreword by Rudolfo Anaya
New Mexico cultural envoy Juan Estevan Arellano, to whom this work is dedicated, writes that querencia “is that which gives us a sense of place, that which anchors us to the land, that which makes us a unique people, for it implies a deeply rooted knowledge of place, and for that reason we respec...
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Sagrado

A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland

By Spencer R. Herrera and Levi Romero
Foreword by Luis Valdez / Photographs by Robert Kaiser
Un lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimayó, a curandero’s shrine in South Texas, or at a binational Mass along the border. Sag...
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