Astonishing Light

E. A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor Patrocio Barela, but the conversations he imagines with this gifted Taos artist (c. 19001964) are uncannily vivid and persuasive. Readers of Maress play about Padre Martnez, another historic Taoseo, know that Mares was able to channel spirits. The poet and the ghost of the sculptor, conversing like two old men at the Geronimo Loun...