University Presses Stand in the Gap for Authors

At UNM Press, we publish sixty-five to seventy titles each year. I am so deeply focused on acquiring new titles in my subject areas that I don’t get to read what my colleagues are bringing in to publish. So, now that the books are in the warehouse, I’m really excited to read two of our newest photography books: Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland, with text by Spencer Herrera, poetry by Levi Romero, and photography by Robert Kaiser; and Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles, with text by Catherine Kurland and Enrique Lamadrid and photography by Miguel Gandert. The photography and text are fantastic in both, and the cultural and physical landscapes explored in each are distinctive and full of character and history.  -Elise McHugh, Dec 9, 2013

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