Collected Works presents veteran New Mexico journalist V. B. Price for a reading and discussion of his book The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project.  In this book, Price assembles a vast amount of information on more than fifty years of deterioration of New Mexico'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. V.B. Price is a poet, human rights and environmental columnist, editor, journalist, architectural critic and teacher. He is a member of the faculty at the University of New Mexico's University Honors Program, where he teaches seminars on Greek and Roman literature in translation, urban issues, the U.S. Constitution, and world poetry. He is the series editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press. He is also an adjunct associate professor at UNM's School of Architecture and Planning. Price is was a columnist for the now-defunct Albuquerque Tribune. He has written a weekly column for various publications since 1971.