Milkweed Editions

A deeply personal examination of violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being. --Amazon.comAuthor: John McCarthyPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 19,...

Seamlessly bridging the material and spiritual worlds, Seedlip and Sweet Apple takes the reader into the mind of a true visionary: Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shaker religion in colonial...

Beautiful and timely work . . . Lush and obsessed and frantic and deathy. --FRANCINE J. HARRISAuthor: Kathryn SmithPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: February 09, 2021Number of Pages: 88...

Sharks In The RiversAuthor: Ada Limã³NPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Oct 01, 2010Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571314385ISBN-13: 9781571314383

Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love. In small-town...

These stories follow ordinary people caught between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and heroic.Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive...

WINNER OF THE MILKWEED PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATUREWINNER OF THE 2013 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERSALA RAINBOW LIST RECOMMENDED BOOKAMELIA BLOOMER PROJECT LIST RECOMMENDED BOOKLAMBDA...

From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream***Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book...

Skin: PoemsAuthor: Robert VandermolenPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: April 13, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571314946ISBN-13: 9781571314949

A young woman who offers to raise her teenage sister's baby gets more than she bargained for in "a moving story about love, duty, and family" (Publishers Weekly).A supermarket clerk in a small dusty...

As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has...

Stone-Garland (Seedbank)Author: Beachy-Quick, DanPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Sep 08, 2020Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571315322ISBN-13:...

"Heartbreakingly stunning." --ADA LIM?NElegant and contemplative, Adam Clay's third collection of poems explores what it means for our lives to change--dwelling on the moments decisions are made, and...

"One of the most inventive, vulnerable, and moving collections I have read in years."-Randall MannAuthor: Kathy FaganPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 14, 2017Number of Pages: 88...

From Fady Joudah, an elegant collection of poems that shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and the horoscope.Author: Fady JoudahPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: March 09,...

In her highly ambitious second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg takes her inspiration from the alphabet.A meditation on the hump of a camel, and what it hides. A reminder that tomatoes belong...

Written in the third century, this is one of the earliest Chinese works about the use of language, preceded only by the Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) of Confucius. Written by Lu Chi, a soldier-poet, the...

The Barn At The End Of The World: The Apprenticeship Of A Quaker, Buddhist ShepherdAuthor: Mary Rose O'ReilleyPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Jul 16, 2001Number of Pages: 344...

Hailed on its original publication as eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man's life (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating...

At the farthest extent of Australia's Blue Mountains, on the threshold of the country's arid interior, the Blue Plateau reveals the vagaries of a hanging climate: the droughts last longer, the...

Book by book, Tschinag is championing his people and preserving their traditions. He gives a whole new meaning to the power contained in the written word. --San Francisco ChronicleAuthor: Galsan...

Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the competing points of motivation--courage and...

Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them. --WASHINGTON POSTAuthor: Ada Limã³NPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: April 13,...

This book is our textbook for the education we most need. --DAN BEACHY-QUICKAuthor: Éireann LorsungPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: October 13, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage:...

A ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy. Latif Askia Ba--an acclaimed poet with Choreic...

The Clearing (Max Ritvo Poetry Prize)Author: Allison AdairPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Jun 07, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Follow the humorous chronicles of Faredoon--known as Freddy-- Junglewalla on his rise to success as he attempts to assassinate his insidious mother-in-law, prevent his son from becoming a holy...

"When a poet spills her secrets, that's a special gift." --KIRKUS An award-winning poet, a mother, a lover of the land and every creature in it, as well as a student of zoology, the author is at home...

A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining--and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our...

"Short, sharp, devastating, The Farther Shore is a literary machine gun . . . a winning debut that happens to be a war novel." --Kansas City StarA small unit of soldiers from the US Army is separated...