Turquoise Trail: The Classic Anthology of New Mexico Poetry

A new annotated edition of Alice Corbin Henderson’s classic 1928 The Turquoise Trail: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry that will offer this seminal Southwest work to a new generation of readers.

A cornerstone work of Southwestern literary culture originally published in 1928, The Turquoise Trail gathers more than thirty poets connected to New Mexico and the broader Southwest during a formative period in American regional writing. Alice Corbin Henderson, closely associated with Santa Fe’s early twentieth-century literary circle, helped shape the identity of Southwestern poetry, making this classic volume both a literary and cultural artifact.

Corbin Henderson’s pioneering volume in the history of New Mexico poetry features stunning work by celebrated poets of the time, including Carl Sandburg, Peggy Pond Church, Edgar Lee Masters, Marsden Hartley, Glenway Wescott, Vachel Lindsay, and John Gould Fletcher, as well as poems by writers better remembered today as masters of prose, such as Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Austin, and Mabel Dodge Luhan, among others.

Volume editors Scarlett Higgins and Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán provide a new introductory essay as well as explanatory notes to provide cultural knowledge, geographical and historical facts, and invaluable translations to help readers appreciate how and why poetry flourished in the desert in the years after New Mexico’s statehood.