Milkweed Editions

From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an...

Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis have put together something beautiful and deep about how things go together in a place that sells, but no longer prides, itself on having figured out how things go...

A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory. What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play...

A Different Distance : A RengaAuthor: Marilyn Hacker, Karthika NaïrPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Dec 14, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The haunting and crystalline poems in Adam Clay's A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World examine the moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person realizes he can barely see the place he...

"A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past."--John Banville"He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe...

From swimming to the bottom of the ocean to reclaim a sunken boat, to standing up to bullies, to asking questions that might have painful answers, twelve year-old Donovan Sanger has some capabilities...

A Song from Faraway is a collection of stories that address masculinity, identity, the impact of war, and fatherhood--Author: Deni Ellis BéchardPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: May 12,...

From one of the nation's most dynamic and celebrated young poets, an extended dialogue with the greatest masterpiece of American literature, Moby-Dick.Taking its inspiration--and, for that matter,...

An intimate and kaleidoscopic entry in the Multiverse series exploring compulsion, connection, and poetic curiosity--Author: Lauren RussellPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Aug 27,...

A lush gem of a book, both heartbreaking and heart-making.--AMY THIELENAuthor: Karen BabinePublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Jan 08, 2019Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage:...

Henry Bunks lives in crowded Miami in the 1950s. A nearby canal -- an entrance to what will become the Florida Everglades -- provides respite from his chaotic life in an uncaring family. Henry meets...

Another City: PoemsAuthor: David KeplingerPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 13, 2018Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571314865ISBN-13:...

A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound. --KIESE LAYMONAuthor: Ed Pavli?Publisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: April 14, 2020Number of Pages: 424...

The times have never been darker, yet Alex Lemon's imagination has never been more hopefully wild. --RICK BAROTAuthor: Alex LemonPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 12, 2019Number of...

An immigrant takes the blame for his nephew's mistake, changing both of their lives, in this "acutely observed" novel by a prize-winning author (Publishers Weekly).When nine-year-old Tom Serafino's...

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between "seed" and "summit" of a life--the body, a people, their language. It is...

This debut collection of poetry by Katrina Vandenberg draws on different meanings of the title, carrying lines from one poem to the next and capturing the reverberations of events across time and...

Eric Pankey's poems gleam with authenticity.--Chase TwichellAuthor: Eric PankeyPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Nov 07, 2017Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Aviary - 9781571311429Author: Dara McanultyPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Apr 12, 2022Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571311424ISBN-13:...

From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens. In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a "fatal...

From Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray, a singular story of discovery and embrace of Indigenous identity. Growing up in Western Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. While the...

For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds--which happen to lie on vast reserves of oil. They once...

Telescopes aim to observe the light of the cosmos, but Christopher Brean Murray turns his powerful lens toward the strange darkness of human existence in Black Observatory, selected by Dana Levin as...

"Peace arrives with these beautiful poems." --MAXINE HONG KINGSTONA beautifully rendered translation by acclaimed American poet Martha Collins, Black Stars introduces Vietnamese poet Ngo Tu Lap, who...

Kirkpatrick's poems give us the world as it truly is. --JIM MOOREAuthor: Patricia KirkpatrickPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: April 14, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage:...

In Blue Lash, James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies. The world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems:...

Ama Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully...

Body Of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, And The World'S Most Alluring FishAuthor: Chris DombrowskiPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Aug 15, 2017Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage:...

"These poems, like light, clarify even as they pierce." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSelected for the National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection...