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:...

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,...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world...

Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlic's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song. Pavlic's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate:...

A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives of girls and women in rural America. In Lost Person Behavior, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an...

The first time journalist Jon Lurie meets Jose Perez, the smart, angry, fifteen-year-old Lakota-Puerto Rican draws blood. Five years later, both men are floundering. Lurie, now in his thirties, is...

Conversations With Birds - 9781639550807Author: Priyanka KumarPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Sep 12, 2023Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A moving story of rebellion, lost love, criminal daring, and restless searching.--Leonard Gardner, author of Fat CityAuthor: Deni Ellis BechardPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Oct 17,...

In [Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's] process, we learn to let go of our assumptions about who this poet might be, and instead read in awe at the play. --JOSÉ OLIVAREZAuthor: Benjamin Naka-Hasebe...

Day of the Child: A PoemAuthor: Arra Lynn RossPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571315373ISBN-13:...

Diary Of A Young Naturalist - 9781571311832Author: Dara McAnultyPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Jun 07, 2022Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

First published by Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd.--Title page verso.Author: Richard WagamesePublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: May 10, 2016Number of Pages: 418...

The North American debut of Tu? S?--poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam. Arguably the most important Zen master in Vietnam today, S? is a...

A major debut that feels timely and timeless. --KATHY FAGANAuthor: Jake SkeetsPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: September 10, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...