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.
New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano
Treasures of a People/El Tesoro del Pueblo
This bilingual panoramic book presents the songs that are the life's work of Cipriano Frederico Vigil, the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2014
Meaningful Places
Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest
A Self-Portrait of a People
First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on thirty-five years of field research by a giant of modern music, composer John Donald Robb.
- Copyright year: 1980
Wings for My Flight
The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock, Updated Edition
First published in 1991 and winner of several national awards, this book chronicles Marcy Cottrell Houle's work at Chimney Rock along with the recovery of the once endangered peregrine falcon.
- Copyright year: 1991
The Goldilocks Zone
"The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today's poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us."--Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
- Copyright year: 2014
The Deportation of Wopper Barraza
A Novel
After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.
- Copyright year: 2014
O'Keeffe
Days in a Life
"Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."--Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses
- Copyright year: 1996
Native Brazil
Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1900
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Cormac McCarthy
New Directions
Critics have been quick to address Cormac McCarthy's indebtedness to southern literature, Christianity, and existential thought, but the essays in this collection are among the first to tackle such issues as gender and race in McCarthy's work.
- Copyright year: 2002
Philmont
A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country
This classic account is the first and still the best comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1972