Books by V. B. Price
Lucretius and the Logic of Venus
V. B. Price sets out to explore questions of love, pleasure, and existence in his response to the Roman poet Lucretius's classic On the Nature of Things. The result is timeless while reaching across time, a philosophical and heartfelt call for pleasure in a world too often reluctant to embrace it.
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Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems
In 1969, V. B. Price wrote a small poem that he gave to his friends and loved ones for Christmas. That tradition has continued each year ever since. This book collects 43 of those intimate, inquisitive, and inspired poems, published together for the first time.
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Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World
This impassioned book, both a loving description and a critique, defines urban values in a milieu that is rarely recognized as a city. Updated more than ten years after its initial publication, it is more relevant than ever to Albuquerque's future. A new chapter describes Albuquerque's recent development, placing it in the context of urban growth in the West.
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Polishing the Mountain, or Catching Balance Just in Time: Selected Poems 2008-2020
This volume compiles largely unpublished work, both individual poems (such as “Chaco Nights,” the latest of Price’s Chaco poems) and large suites (such as Homeric America and the Museum Poems). It also excerpts previously published work, including Memoirs of the World, Rome MMI, and selections of Christmas poems.
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Memoirs of the World in Ten Fragments
We live in an improbable world; an often inexplicable world; a world literally beyond belief. V. B. Price does not pretend to explain or impose a narrative or find meaning. A "memoir of the world" must, therefore, be random, occasional, infinitesimal, so incomplete as to be virtually nonexistent — and absolutely fascinating.
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Broken and Reset: Selected Poems 1966 to 2006
Broken and Reset: Selected Poems 1966-2006 mirrors poet V. B. Price's self-education. Written while he was earning a living as a reporter, columnist, editor, and teacher, the poems explore the great learning experiences of his life, his attraction to New Mexico and Chaco Canyon, and his struggle to make sense of the modern world.
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The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment since the Manhattan Project
Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world.
Veteran New Mexico journalist V. B. Price assembles a vast amount of information on more than fifty years of deterioration of the state's environment, most of it hitherto available only in scattered newspaper articles and government reports. Viewing New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation, Price's is the first book to give the general public a realistic perspective on the problems surrounding New Mexico's environmental health and resources.
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The University of New Mexico
This photographic portrait of the University of New Mexico shares the lure and magic of the campus and its unique architecture. Formally established in 1889, UNM has evolved into a major American university, overcoming geographical isolation and the relative poverty and rural circumstances of much of the state's small population.
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Other titles by V. B. Price include:
Poetry:
Rome MMI, with photographs by Jan Schmitz.
Death Self, with paintings by Rini Price.
Myth Waking: Homeric Hymns: A Modern Sequel
Chaco Trilogy
The 7 Deadly Sins
Semblances
The Cyclops Garden
Fiction:
The Oddity
Nonfiction:
Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscape of the American Southwest, co-editor with Baker Morrow
In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry Since 1960, co-editor
Anasazi Architecture and American Design, co-editor with Baker Morrow
Chaco Body, with photographs by Kirk Gittings
Monsters, with Vincent Price