Red earth : poems of New Mexico /
by Alice Corbin ; compiled and edited by Lois Rudnick and Ellen Zieselman.
- Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003.
- 112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
"Republish[ed] ... with images from the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts."--p. 10.
Preface / Ellen Zieselman -- Acknowledgments / Ellen Zieselman -- Introduction / Lois Rudnick -- Red Earth: El Rito De Santa Fe -- Los Conquistadores -- Three Men Entered the Desert Alone -- A Song from Old Spain: in the Sierras -- In the Desert -- Indian Songs: Listening, Buffalo Dance, Where the Fight was, the Wind, Courtship, Fear, Parting -- Sand Paintings -- Corn-Grinding Song: Tesuque Pueblo -- The Green Corn Dance: San Iidefonso -- Desert Drift: Spring, Dust-Whorl, Trees and Horses, Bird-Song and Wire, the Wrestler, Foot-Hills, Waiting, Afternoon, Cactus, Stone-Pine and Stream, Shadow, Gold, Night, Descanso, Pueblo, Double, Fiesta -- From the Stone Age -- Candle-Light and Sun: Candle-Light, the Mask, Rain-Prayer, Fame, Sunlight -- The Eagle's Song -- On the Acequia Madre -- Pedro Montoya of Arroyo Hondo -- Una Anciana Mexicana -- Madre Maria -- Cundiyo -- Manzanita -- Chula la Manana -- "Christ Is Born in Bethlehem" -- La Muerte de la Vieja -- Juan Quintana -- Petrolino's Complaint -- El Coyotito
A collection of verse by Chicago modernist poet Alice Corbin, written after she moved to Santa Fe for health reasons, celebrates New Mexico's native peoples, customs and landscape. This edition is illustrated with works of art from Santa Fe's Museum of Fine Arts collection.