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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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Ingenious Pleasures

An Anthology of Punk, Trash, and Camp in Twentieth-Century Poetry

Edited by Drew Gardner
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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A Description of Acquaintance

The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Under the Piñon Tree

Finding a Place in Pie Town

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Traditions of the Osage

Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche

Edited by Garrick Bailey
University of New Mexico Press

Sacred teachings, folk stories, and animal stories collected in their original language, Osage, between 1910 and 1923.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Toxic Feedback

Helping Writers Survive and Thrive. Revised and Expanded Edition.

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Study of Photography in Latin America

Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest

Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez’s Revolutionary Church

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Truth or Consequences

Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The American West and Its Interpreters

Essays on Literary History and Historiography

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Lake Tahoe

A Rephotographic History

Photographs by Peter Goin
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Don Perkins

A Champion's Life

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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UFOhs!

Mysteries in the Sky

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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At the Heart of the Borderlands

Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Arizona Family Outdoor Adventure

An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Shining Mountains

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Half-White Album

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Age of Dissent

Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Water for the People

The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Official Cookbook of the Chile Pepper Institute

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ride Lonesome

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Blood on the Moon

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Juan Domínguez de Mendoza

Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693

University of New Mexico Press

This book, the final volume in the Coronado Historical Series, recognizes the career of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, a soldier-colonist who was as instrumental as any governor or friar in shaping Hispano-Indian society in New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Victory Garden

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Art of Brevity

Crafting the Very Short Story

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Suggest Paradise

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Disequilibria

Meditations on Missingness

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Awesome Arizona

200 Amazing Facts about the Grand Canyon State

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Hispano Bastion

New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860

University of New Mexico Press

In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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All This Thinking

The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge

University of New Mexico Press

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Under the Cap of Invisibility

The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle

By Lucie Genay; Foreword by Alex Hunt
University of New Mexico Press

The book investigates how Pantex has impacted local identity by molding elements of the past into the guaranty of its future and its concealment.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Semantics of the World

Selected Poems

University of New Mexico Press

This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora A. Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Dancing on the Sun Stone

Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Steinbeck’s Imaginarium

Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

University of New Mexico Press

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's artistic career.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Latinx Poetics

Essays on the Art of Poetry

Edited by Ruben Quesada; Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Chouteaus

First Family of the Fur Trade

University of New Mexico Press

The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective

The Graphic Work of Floyd Solomon

By Joyce M. Szabo; Introduction by Siegfried Halus
University of New Mexico Press

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
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Love, Loosha

The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books

Love, Loosha is the extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Production and Distribution of Mimbres Pottery

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Miles to Go

An African Family in Search of America along Route 66

University of New Mexico Press

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
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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

em>Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government's ability to meet major policy challenges.

  • 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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