Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, his role as a witness for the misunderstood tribal life of the barrio, and his redemptive vocation as a poet.

Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio

Biographies & Memoirs

Baca, Jimmy

Arts & Literature

Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books

Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio (Red Crane Literature Series)

A delightful panorama of Southwestern culture is presented in this collection of satirical and penetrating essays exploring the language, turbulent history, and rich multicultural fabric of life in this unique region.

Dancing to Pay the Light Bill: Essays on New Mexico and the Southwest: Essays on New Mexico and the Southwest (Red Crane Literature Series)

History

Sagel, Jim

Americas

This guide and history features over seventy-five churches to be found in Santa Fe and its neighboring rural communities. It is illustrated with maps and photographs of each church.

Built of Earth and Song: Churches of Northern New Mexico

Cash, Marie Romero

Tomás searches for maturity and knowledge of his dead father, with the aid of his great-aunt Tía Zulema's magical eyeglasses and deck of playing cards. Bilingual English/Spanish.

Where the Cinnamon Winds Blow: Donde Soplan Los Vientos De Canela (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Eleven-year-old Tomas visits his uncle and learns a lot about his New Mexican cultural heritage from this wise storyteller. The stories are presented in both Spanish and English.

Garden of Stories / Jardín de cuentos

Children's Books

The cooking of northern Mexico got its spark from the ranching culture, in which food was prepared with indigenous ingredients and cooked over a wood fire. El Norte presents delicious and easy to prepare recipes and dishes from the northern region of Mexico.

El Norte: The Cuisine of Northern Mexico (Red Crane Cookbook Series)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Peyton, James W.

Regional & International

In Jim Peyton's New Cooking from Old Mexico, his third cookbook, James Peyton explores the history of Mexican cooking. A former restaurateur and a scholar, Peyton has spent years traveling in Mexico and in libraries researching Mexican cuisine. New Cooking from Old Mexico introduces a contemporary and richly varied style of cooking. It includes a history of Mexican cooking ,tracing its development over the last five hundred years from Mayan and Aztec to later Arab and Spanish influences. Most recipes represent the finest in contemporary Mexican cooking. Richly illustrated color food shots and black-and-white illustrations.

Jim Peyton's New Cooking from Old Mexico

Peyton, James

In every religion, culture, and language, the spirits of the dark side are as real as the spirits of the light. The simple sorrow of everyday life can trigger a visit from an evil spirit. These are stories of the foreboding beings and presences who exist just outside our consciousness.

Stories from a Dark and Evil World

Pijoan, Teresa

United States

Volume 1 of A Land So Remote elegantly illustrates the development of religious art in northern New Mexico during an active period of over 125 years. To sustain their faith when they came to the New World, the Spanish relied on santos, visual representations of saints, to alleviate their loneliness and enrich their lives. The result is a uniquely American art that embodies the religious spirit and aspirations of New Mexico's Spanish immigrants, whose enduring faith helped them cope with the rigors of a harsh and dangerous frontier life. With roots in Spanish baroque style, the pieces illustrated in this book played an important role in church, community, and family. Many of these rare and beautiful works of art have never been published. With hundreds of color photographs of works from four museums and numerous private collections, A Land So Remote is vital to any art library and as a reference for collectors.

A Land So Remote : Religious Art of New Mexico 1780-1907

Arts & Photography

Frank, Larry

Skolkin, David

Bennett, Charles

O’Shaughnessy, Michael

History & Criticism

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