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.
Dancing on the Sun Stone
Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz
Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2022
Steinbeck’s Imaginarium
Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters
- Copyright year: 2022
Latinx Poetics
Essays on the Art of Poetry
Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Chouteaus
First Family of the Fur Trade
The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.
- Copyright year: 2008
Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective
The Graphic Work of Floyd Solomon
In Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective, Joyce M. Szabo positions Solomon among his contemporaries, making this vibrant artist and his remarkable vision broadly available to audiences both familiar with his work and those seeing it for the first time.
- Copyright year: 2022
Love, Loosha
The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie
- Copyright year: 2022
The Production and Distribution of Mimbres Pottery
The Production and Distribution of Mimbres Pottery assesses a much-expanded INAA data set and presents a new and more-informed interpretation of ceramic production and distribution in the Mimbres region.
- Copyright year: 2022
Miles to Go
An African Family in Search of America along Route 66
Miles to Go is the story of a family from Africa in search of authentic America along the country's most famous highway, Route 66.
- Copyright year: 2022
Late Work
A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading
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
Breakdown
Lessons for a Congress in Crisis
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The Abolitionist’s Journal
Memories of an American Antislavery Family
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
Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha
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
A Cross and a Star
Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
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
Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly
A Memoir
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
The Empty Bowl
Poems of the Holocaust and After
In The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After, Holocaust survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to record trauma through art.
- Copyright year: 2022
Send a Runner
A Navajo Honors the Long Walk
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
Good Naked
How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier. Revised and Expanded Edition.
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
Girl Flees Circus
A Novel
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
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds
Poems
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
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
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
La Mina
A Royal Moche Tomb
La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987.
- Copyright year: 2022
House Gods
Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders
In House Gods, Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners.
- Copyright year: 2022
"A Serpentine Gesture"
John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology
- Copyright year: 2022
New Mexico's Moses
Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
In New Mexico's Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics.
- Copyright year: 2022
Jesuits and Race
A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530-2020
- Copyright year: 2022
I Got Mine
Confessions of a Midlist Writer
- Copyright year: 2022
Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature
Using Gloria Anzaldúa's theories of conocimiento as a critical lens, the authors examine several literary works including Side by Side / Lado a lado; They Call Me Güero; Land of the Cranes; Efrén Divided; and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces.
- Copyright year: 2022
Colorado Family Outdoor Adventure
An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside
Colorado Family Outdoor Adventure is the definitive guide for families of all ages to experiencing the natural splendors of Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2022
Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
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Graciela
One Woman's Story of War, Survival, and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes
Graciela chronicles the life of a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the war in Peru that killed seventy thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Copyright year: 2022
The New Death
Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook
The Soul of Mexican Home Cooking
The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook is the first book to explore the glories of Mexican regional cooking by focusing on this single, but endlessly variable, ingredient.
- Copyright year: 2022
From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going
A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Copyright year: 2022
Tucumcari Tonite!
A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town
Tucumcari Tonite! blends in-depth research and personal and family experiences to re-create a "memoir" of Tucumcari.
- Copyright year: 2022
Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve, Revised Edition
Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve offers first-time and returning visitors a complete guide to the recreation and beauty found in this unique landscape.
- Copyright year: 2022
First Impressions
A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first nonnatives to describe them.
- Copyright year: 2017
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
The essays in this collection do not offer simple solutions to histories of colonialism, patriarchy, and misogyny through which gender binaries and racial hierarches have been imposed and reproduced, but rather provide a crucial opportunity for reflection on and continued reimagination of the contours of Latinidad.
- Copyright year: 2022
Donaciano Vigil
The Life of a Nuevomexicano Soldier, Statesman, and Territorial Governor
In this gripping biography of a remarkable man, Maurilio E. Vigil and Helene Boudreau fill the gap within the scholarship on Hispanics in nineteenth-century New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2022
Astonishing Light
Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela
E. A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor, but the conversations he imagines with the gifted Taos artist attempt to capture the genius, the isolation, and the tragedy of Patrociño Barela while revealing the ability of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Believer
Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack
The Believer reveals the life and work of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums and further leads us to the hidden dimensions and alternate realities that captivated Mack until the end of his life.
- Copyright year: 2021
Requiem for America’s Best Idea
National Parks in the Era of Climate Change
A poignant and thought-provoking work, Requiem for America's Best Idea investigates the interactions between people and nature and the world that can inspire and destroy them.
- Copyright year: 2022
Walking Uphill at Noon
Poems
Walking Uphill at Noon showcases Yenser's mastery of prosody and love of play.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Creole Rebellion
The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
Part history, part adventure, and part legal drama, Bruce Chadwick chronicles the most successful slave revolt in the pages of American history.
- Copyright year: 2022
What Cannot Be Undone
True Stories of a Life in Medicine
In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Loneliest Girl
Poems
In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame--for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim.
- Copyright year: 2022
Up the Winds and Over the Tetons
Journal Entries and Images from the 1860 Raynolds Expedition
Historians, travelers, and outdoor enthusiasts will welcome this important addition to the literature of western exploration.
- Copyright year: 2012
Native American Rhetoric
Native American Rhetoric is the first book to explore rhetorical traditions from within individual Native communities and Native languages.
- Copyright year: 2021
James Silas Calhoun
First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent
Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Silas Calhoun.
- Copyright year: 2021
Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 2
Mind, Nation, and Power
Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry--its language, forms, and musicality--volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions.
- Copyright year: 2021
Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1
Language, Form, and Music
The essays collected in both volumes of Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 move away from esoteric literary criticism toward a more evaluative and speculative inquiry that will serve as the basis from which poets will be discussed and taught over the next half-century and beyond.
- Copyright year: 2021