Hearts in Motion, Hearts in Place: The Quest for Querencias, by Enrique R. Lamadrid PRESALE
Enrique R. Lamadrid explores the idea of querencia through our friends, the birds, in this warm micro-collection—part memoir, part ethno-ornithology, part poetry. Limited hardcover edition with illustrations by Jim Vogel. Publication date: October 14, 2025.
Enrique R. Lamadrid explores the idea of querencia through our friends, the birds, in this warm micro-collection—part memoir, part ethno-ornithology, part poetry. Limited hardcover edition with illustrations by Jim Vogel. Publication date: October 14, 2025.
Enrique R. Lamadrid explores the idea of querencia through our friends, the birds, in this warm micro-collection—part memoir, part ethno-ornithology, part poetry. Limited hardcover edition with illustrations by Jim Vogel. Publication date: October 14, 2025.
This book will be published October 14, 2025, in an exclusive hardcover edition with avian illustrations by Jim Vogel.
Praise for Hearts in Motion, Hearts in Place:
“This collection is not only personal but ultimately and poetically universal. It is a reconciliation with the self, with others, and with the natural world. These meditations are Querencia in motion. They sing for us and invite us to sing along.”
—Levi Romero, inaugural New Mexico State Poet Laureate and coeditor of Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland
“Revealing truths that are at once ancient and new, Enrique Lamadrid, scholar, poet, seeker, manito, and elder, reminds us through smart, elegant prose and poems rooted in place that each of us is endemic to the earth and to one another. Read these words and feel at once connected to the ground beneath your feet and ready to soar.”
—Michelle Otero, author of Vessels: A Memoir of Borders and Bosque: Poems
“Enrique Lamadrid’s book is an invitation. It’s a wonderful book, a book to be kept and visited time and again. Lamadrid invites us first to New Mexico, the place of his situation on Earth. Here, he reflects upon it through its geology, its ancient past and heritage, its ecology, its people, its beasts and birds. The exploration proceeds through poetry, through mini essays, through fun facts, historical ruminations, and music. And yet the work, like the place, is of a piece, a unity that the word Querencia implies. The likewise-implied invitation is to undertake, dear reader, your own exploration to find the abiding peace of your own Querencia.”
—Michael Thomas, author of Ostrich, Hat Dance, and Butterfly Kisses
About Enrique R. Lamadrid:
Enrique R. Lamadrid is a borderlands literary and bio-regional folklorist from Albuquerque and the Río Arriba, fascinated with natural histories in Nuevomexicano and Mexicano oral tradition, ethno-ornithology, and ethnotaxonomies. Born in Embudo in 1948, he was a Spanish professor for six years at Northern New Mexico College in Española and for thirty years at the University of New Mexico. He is co-founder of the UNM Conexiones programs that have connected hundreds of students to northern and central Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Ecuador. He is the Querencias Series editor at UNM Press.