Sun, Nov 10
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Don Usner, Sabino's Map (30th Anniversary edition)
This landmark publication is considered a classic of New Mexico literature. “Brimming with voices, las voces de la gente …[and] the first-person narrator who returns again and again to the text like a knowing and trusted pariente inviting the reader to sit for a while in the Plaza del Cerro.”J Sagel
Date, Time & Location
Nov 10, 2024, 4:30 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
“Quite simply … the best history yet made of a northern New Mexico community. It is thorough, balanced, gracefully written, and blessed with an insider’s access and affection.” —William deBuys
Don Usner will be in conversation with New Mexico's inaugural State Poet Laureate (2020), Levi Romero.
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Purchase Sabino's Map from CW online here, or you can call the store at (505) 988-4226 to order.
Chimayó, New Mexico is renowned the world over for its Hispano master weaving families, flavorful chile peppers, lowriders, and its fabled church, El Santuario de Chimayó, one of the most visited Catholic shrines and pilgrimage centers in the United States. Not far away lies the Plaza del Cerro, the best preserved Spanish Colonial plaza in New Mexico, and for generations the heart of the village. Locals lived in a tight-knit community…