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Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.

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Late Work

A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

University of New Mexico Press

Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist's thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Breakdown

Lessons for a Congress in Crisis

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Abolitionist’s Journal

Memories of an American Antislavery Family

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books

The author raises questions about why the fervent commitment to the emancipation of African Americans was nearly forgotten by his family, exploring the racial attitudes in the author's upbringing and the ingrained racism that still plagues our nation today.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

University of New Mexico Press

In this thoroughly researched work, Juan Javier Pescador traces the history of popular devotion to the Santo Niño de Atocha, one of the the most prominent religious figures for households between Zacatecas, Mexico, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A Cross and a Star

Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile

University of New Mexico Press

In this classic memoir which explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Empty Bowl

Poems of the Holocaust and After

By Judith H. Sherman; Foreword by Arthur Kleinman; Afterword by Ilana Gelb
University of New Mexico Press

In The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After, Holocaust survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to record trauma through art.


  • Copyright year: 2022
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Send a Runner

A Navajo Honors the Long Walk

University of New Mexico Press

Both exhilarating and punishing, Send A Runner tells the story of a Navajo family using the power of running to honor their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Good Naked

How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier. Revised and Expanded Edition.

University of New Mexico Press

Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Girl Flees Circus

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Girl Flees Circus takes flight the moment Katie crashes to earth, promising a journey into the lives of a glamorous, redheaded stranger and the people she will change forever.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones tras el Espejo Convexo del Tiempo

Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / Poemas en Recuerdo de la Guerra Civil Española

By E.A. Mares; Prologue by Enrique R. Lamadrid; Introduction by Fernando Martín Pescador; Epilogue by Susana Rivera
University of New Mexico Press

In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. "Tony" Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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