Reading Room
Recorded Readings · Suggested Reading
Listen for a moment to readings from books on exhibit in Lasting Impressions: The Private Presses of New Mexico at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The exhibition is a journey through two centuries of literary history and the stories of those who made a difference through their work, their tools, their presses, their vision.
Lasting Impressions continues through February 7, 2007, as does a companion exhibit Lasting Impressions: A Library Legacy at the New Mexico State Library, also in Santa Fe.
Recorded Readings
Cuaderno de Ortografía, produced on the Ramage Press under the guidance of Padre Antonio Martínez, 1834, and read by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Listen to Reading (5.3mb)
Laguna Indian Translation of McGuffey’s New First Eclectic Reader, produced by the Laguna Mission Press, 1882, and read by Sister Mary Rosita Shiosee, S.B.S.
Listen to Reading (2.3mb)
The Ballad of Santa Fee Sal, written by Spud Johnson, produced by Laughing Horse Press, ca. 1930, and read by Ali MacGraw.
Listen to Reading (4.2mb)
In the Presence of the Sun: A Gathering of Shields, produced by Rydal Press, 1992, and read by the author, N. Scott Momaday.
Listen to Reading (7.1mb)
A Lament on Tsankawi Mesa, written by Peggy Pond Church, produced by Thistle Press 1980, and read by New Mexico First Lady Barbara Richardson. Listen to Reading (6.4mb)
The Milagro Beanfield War, illustrations by Rini Templeton, 1974, and read by the author, John Nichols. Listen to Reading (5.1mb)
When I Am Dead, written by Mary Austin, produced by Rydal Press, 1935, and read by Marsha Mason. Listen to Reading (3.1mb)
Grandmother Sweat Bath, the story of the Tzutujil Maya told in English by Martin Prechtel, produced by Weaselsleeves Press, 1990, and read by Wes Studi. Listen to Reading (3.7mb)
SUGGESTED READING
Bulletin in Bold Characters by Maurice Taylor,
The Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1990
Gustave Baumann: Hand of a Craftsman by David
Acton,
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996
Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art by Martin F. Krause,
Madeline Carol Yurtseven and David Acton,
Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993
The Heart’s Precision, Judson Crews and His Poetry by Wendell Anderson, Dumont Press, 1994
Reflections in the Lizard’s Eye by John Brandi,
Western Edge Press, 2000<
Santa Fe and Taos, The Writer’s
Era 1916-1941 by
Marta Weigle and
Kyle Fiore,
Ancient City
Press Press, 1982
Spud Johnson & Laughing
Horse by Sharyn Udall,
University of New Mexico
Press, 1994
Willard Clark, Printer and Printmaker
by David Farmer,
Four-O Publishing, 2000
