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.
Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico
Miguel de Quintana's Life and Writings
In this fascinating volume Lomelí and Colahan reveal Quintana's writings from deep within Inquisition archives and provide a translation of and critical look at Quintana's poetry and religious plays.
- Copyright year: 2006
Rain Scald
Poems
In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore.
- Copyright year: 2018
Image to Insight
The Art of William Hart McNichols
This book comprises a selection of William Hart McNichols's popular icons and sacred images into a single collection.
- Copyright year: 2018
Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr
A Novel
Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cosas
Folk Art Travels in Mexico
Love and friendship, art and craft, language and culture are the subjects of this look back at one woman's experiences in Mexico over a period of twenty years.
- Copyright year: 2018
A Song of Dismantling
Poems
In this dynamic debut collection, Fernando Pérez employs lyric and nonce forms to interrogate identity politics and piece together a complex family history.
- Copyright year: 2018
The Catherwood Project
Incidents of Visual Reconstructions and Other Matters
The work of Argentine photographer Leandro Katz is presented here in dialogue with the nineteenth-century artist Frederick Catherwood, whose images of Maya ruins have fascinated viewers for more than a century.
- Copyright year: 2017
Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories
Native American Women's Autobiography
Portillo analyzes traditional autobiographies and memoirs alongside interviews and social media to explore the intricacies of Native American women's voices and the stories that they share.
- Copyright year: 2017
Imagining Persons
Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson
These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.
- Copyright year: 2017
Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica
Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions
Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area.
- Copyright year: 2017
An Open Map
The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson
The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after Robert Duncan and Charles Olson first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970.
- Copyright year: 2017
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America
Synoptic Methods and Practices
Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America teaches imaginative and distinctive approaches to the practice of history through a series of essays on colonial Latin America.
- Copyright year: 2017