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  February 2012

 NEW FROM UNM PRESS
Madre
MADRE: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
by Liza Bakewell

Bakewell's study is part memoir, part travelogue, and part investigation into a culture and its language.






Breaths BREATHS
by Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz
prints by Yoshiko Shimano

Accompanied by Yoshiko Shimano's eloquent prints, these poems will energize and captivate readers while inviting them to seek their own paths to illumination.





Writings of Eusebio Chacón THE WRITINGS OF EUSEBIO CHACÓN
edited by A. Gabriel Meléndez and Francisco A. Lomelí

This collection of Chacón's writings brings together all published and written materials found, displaying his versatility with samples of his work as an accomplished orator, translator, essayist, historian, novelist, and poet.



History of Mining in Latin America A HISTORY OF MINING IN LATIN AMERICA: From the Colonial Era to the Present
by Kendall W. Brown

Brown's focus on the legendary mines at Potosí and comparison of its operations to those of other mines in Latin America is a well-written and accessible study that is the first to span the colonial era to the present.



Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World YANANTIN AND MASINTIN IN THE ANDEAN WORLD: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru
by Hillary S. Webb

Hillary Webb's eloquently written autoethnography seeks to understand the indigenous Andean concept of yanantin or "complementary opposites."    

 

 

 KUDOS AND SALUDOS
Road to Ruins "In this beguiling autobiography, Graham, who was awarded a MacArthur genius grant in 1981 and is the founding director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, recalls a charmed life as an archaeologist-explorer."--The Atlantic

Read the complete review here..

 

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 UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, March 8 at 6pm:   Martha Egan discusses and signs AN APRICOT YEAR at Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM

Saturday, March 10 from 11:30am-12:30pm: Jim Kristofic (NAVAJOS WEAR NIKES: A Reservation Life) and Alberto Álvaro Ríos (CAPIROTADA: A Nogales Memoir) take part in a panel discussion, "All Roads Lead to Arizona: Memoirs of the Place We Call Home," at the Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ

Saturday, March 10 from 11:30am-12:30pm: Liza Bakewell discusses MADRE: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun at the Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ

Saturday, March 10 from 11:30am-12:30pm: Sam Quinones (ANTONIO'S GUN AND DELFINO'S DREAM: True Tales of Mexican Migration) takes part in a panel discussion, "Digging in the Dirt: A Discussion of Setting as Character," at the Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ

Saturday, March 10 from 2:00-4:00pm: Martha Egan discusses and signs AN APRICOT YEAR at Moby Dickens Bookshop in Taos, NM

Saturday, March 10 from 11:30am-12:30pm: Sam Quinones (ANTONIO'S GUN AND DELFINO'S DREAM: True Tales of Mexican Migration) takes part in the Nuestra Raíces Workshop "Windows into Their World: Creative Writing with Latino Youth" at the Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ

Thursday, March 15 at 6pm: Thomas Fox Averill discusses and signs SECRETS OF THE TSIL CAFÉ: A Novel with Recipes at the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library in Topeka, KS

Sunday, March 18 from 1:00-3:00pm: Nasario García reads and signs GRANDPA LOLO'S NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET: La tilma de Abuelito Lolo at Treasure House Books in Albuquerque, NM

Sunday, March 18 at 3pm: Martha Egan discusses and signs AN APRICOT YEAR at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM

Saturday, March 31 at 12pm: Nasario García reads and signs GRANDPA LOLO'S NAVAJO SADDLE BLANKET: La tilma de Abuelito Lolo at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM

Saturday, April 7 from 2:00-4:00pm: Book Launch for THE GREAT TAOS BANK ROBBERY AND OTHER TRUE STORIES by Tony Hillerman (Reading and signing with Anne Hillerman and Don Strel) at Moby Dickens in Taos, NM
 
 AUTHORS ON THE AIR
Wednesday, March 21 at 10:30am MST: Melody and Myke Groves discuss HOIST A COLD ONE! Historic Bars of the Southwest on KSJE-FM's "Write On! Four Corners"