In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, read on below for a selection of the newest books from Chicago and our client publishers, including nonfiction, literary fiction, and poetry. Use the code UCPNEW to save 30% on these books when you order from our website.

From Acre Books

The Lighthouse Tattoo: Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz

In his fourth full-length collection, Jose Hernandez Diaz explores the first-generation Mexican American experience in nuanced linear verse, avant-garde offerings, and deadpan absurdist prose poems.

From UBC Press

Azmapu: A Mapuche Philosophy of Care by Elisa Loncon, translated by Juan Francisco Salazar

Mapuche scholar and activist Elisa Loncon shares the philosophy guiding her fight for Indigenous and environmental rights.

From Swan Isle Press

Beautiful Lightning that Lasts | Moreno Villa & Jacinta by Christopher Maurer and José Moreno Villa; selected poems translated by Lauren Szenderski

Uncovers the life and influence of Florence Ruth Louchheim, the inspiration behind Spanish poet and painter José Moreno Villa’s Jacinta la pelirroja.

How a City Sings from November to November: Lorca on Music by Federico García Lorca, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Christopher Maurer

Illuminates the place of music in the life and poetry of Federico García Lorca.

My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts by Luis Rechani Agrait, translated by William Carlos Williams, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Cohen, with a foreword by Julio Marzán and an afterword by José Luis Ramos Escobar

William Carlos Williams’s “lost” translation of Luis Rechani Agrait’s masterpiece.

Rome: Pedestrians Beware by Rafael Alberti, introduction by Anthony Geist, translated with essays by Anthony Geist and Giuseppe Leporace, photographs by Adam Weintraub

Rafael Alberti’s collection of poems set in vibrant Rome, his home in exile from Spain.

The Men Who Killed My Mother | Los hombres que mataron a mi madre: Poetry | Poesía by Fernando Valverde, translated by Gordon E. McNeer

A powerful account of the symbolic murder of the poet’s mother.

From Reaktion Books

How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth.

From The University of Chicago Press

Walking a City’s History: Mexico City from the Sixteenth Century to the Present by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Take a street-level tour of Mexico’s capital and learn how one of the world’s most extraordinary cities has transformed over the centuries.

George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks by Jerry Emory

The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks.

Moon Mirrored Indivisible by Farid Matuk

Multilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy.

Interstices: Negotiations at Contemporary Art’s Boundaries by Alexander Alberro

An exploration of innovative practices flourishing at the margins of Western art.

Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico by Edward Wright-Ríos

A study of contemporary pilgrimage through the elastic history of a shrine in Oaxaca, Mexico.

From Carnegie Mellon University Press

No by Idea Vilariño, translated by María José Zubieta

Idea Vilariño’s final masterpiece, where poetry becomes both refusal and resilience.

From Omnidawn

WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA. by Rodrigo Toscano

Poetic fables that consider a future Greater Americas that blends the cultures of peoples across the hemisphere.

From Park Books

Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory Edited by Javier Peña Ibáñez and Nick Axel

Celebrates ten years of projects commissioned for the Concéntrico festival of design and architecture in Logroño, Spain.

From University of Wales Press

The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales Edited by Megan DeVirgilis

Exploring Spain and Latin America’s transhispanic Gothic connection.