Sandoval, Benjamin (Albuquerque, NM), part 2

Authors

• 1140 3. 015.2

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

5-5-1998

Comments

[In video collection] Continued: his time while attending High Lands University that originally was established as a Normal college in Las Vegas. He remembers the time was tough during the economic depression, and his resilience to thrive in school, the Spanish language club, his professors, especially Leon Felipe Camino, an exile from Franco's regime and  visiting professor from Cornell. He was a poet and a great writer. His father used to buy books and newspapers in Spanish, with which he learned to read and love Spanish poetry and literature. He discusses the term of tradition using a story to explain why the letter 'H' in Spanish should be eliminated from the alphabet. Reading a poem by Leon Felipe Camino, memories of professor Antonio Rebolledo, who was a great prose writer. More poems by other former professors. Discussing his writings and prose in Castilian. Reading some of his verses and poems. 

Recommended Citation

Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico