Milkweed Editions

It's 1942, just a month after the United States entered World War II. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are in a station changing trains, leaving their lives in Harvester, Minnesota behind, and...

A book for the age of the cloud, a volume of poetry that is at once novelistic and intensely lyrical. --KHALED MATTAWAAuthor: Patrick JohnsonPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: December 10,...

Nell Stillman's road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy,...

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Winner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize An Indie Next Selection for September 2021 A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection...

Haaker in avena NovelAuthor: Edvard HoemPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: November 09, 2021Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571311297ISBN-13:...

"Astonishing . . . A pure-gospel shout to the vaulted heavens." --D. A. POWELLWritten in the aftermath of brain trauma, this astonishing collection takes us through a glittering underworld of illness...

A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O'Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world.A hearth is many things: a place for solitude;...

Winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. "An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers."--Publishers WeeklyOn Hell's Bottom Ranch, a section of land...

Bill McKibben's first book, the bestselling The End of Nature, offered a devastating portrait of the harm human civilization has done to the planet. Hope, Human and Wild sets out on a dramatically...

Lavina Cumming has spent her entire first ten years of life on the Bosque Ranch in Arizona Territory with her mother and father, five brothers, and her black mustang pony, Chummy. When her mother...

This work quakes and blooms and dares us to try to resist the world's grace.-Ada LimónAuthor: William BrewerPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: September 05, 2017Number of Pages: 96...

I Love Information, selected by Brian Teare as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a vigorous examination of knowledge, belief, and which begets which. Egret feathers. Pulverized...

Ice is an index of findings from the places most buried by time-in permafrost or in memory-and their brutal excavations--Author: David KeplingerPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Aug 08,...

On the border between silence and language, the message and the truth. This novel is a tribute to the liberating power of literature. --JURY CITATION, PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA...

Unmistakably of today's America, even as it mines the timeless concerns of loss and memory. --WAYNE MILLERAuthor: Don BogenPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 12, 2019Number of Pages:...

The thin knife that severed your tumor, writes Brooke Matson in these poems, "it cleaves me still." What to do when a world is split--terribly, wholly--by grief? When the loss of the beloved...

Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have...

From a masterful storyteller, comes a Midwestern epic that illuminates the majestic in the commonplace.When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as "a...

Beautifully written, masterfully structured, and brimming with insight into the natural world . . . It has the makings of an American classic. --ANN PATCHETTAuthor: Margaret RenklPublisher: Milkweed...

Let Him Go (Movie Tie-In Edition): A NovelAuthor: Larry WatsonPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Nov 03, 2020Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features, Starring Kevin Costner and Diane LaneThe celebrated author of Montana 1948 returns to the American West in this riveting tale of familial love and its...

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was...

Listening To The Wind (Seedbank)Author: Tim RobinsonPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Sep 10, 2019Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571313702ISBN-13:...

Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by...

FINALIST FOR THE UNT RILKE PRIZEFrom celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love's Last Number is a series of musings on time's arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past,...

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. "All my life all I've wanted was to be myself / and someone else," writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the...

As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family's history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and...

Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection of poems about memory, place, and distance between reality and its transcriptions--Author: Kathryn CowlesPublisher: Milkweed...

"Marginlands is a tour de force, a magnificent first book about India's marginalized landscapes and inhabitants, written with compassion, compressed elegance of observation, and urgent political...