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.
Steinbeck’s Imaginarium
Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters
In Steinbeck’s Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s artistic career.
- 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
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
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
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
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