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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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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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