Milkweed Editions

The North Woods tradition of making maple syrup serves as an illuminating backdrop for John Elder's reflections on nature, literature, playfulness, and fatherhood, as he builds a sugaring house with...

The western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the world's ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the obvious villains here, but what part does human nature play...

A very American book, and an important one for our time. --CATE MARVINAuthor: Rick BarotPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: February 11, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage:...

This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state...

Growing up, Bill Holm knew what failure was: "to die in Minneota." But after returning to his hometown ("a very small dot on an ocean of grass") after 20 years' absence, he wasn't so sure. Finding...

WINNER OF THE MILKWEED PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATUREEleven-year-old Sebby has found the perfect escape from his crummy house and bickering family--a secret cave he calls "The Hole in the Wall."...

A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape. Thoughtful, sincere, wise, and beautiful.--Helen MacdonaldAuthor: J. Drew LanhamPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: June 13,...

"Beautiful and necessary." --DAN BEACHY-QUICKShimmering and formally precise, the poems of this debut collection "fuse absence and presence in lines full of a feeling that has no opposite" (Brian...

I needed to laugh and wonder and wince and gasp. I needed to see all this glorious seeing. You need this book too.--Danez SmithAuthor: Michael BazzettPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Oct...

Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the...

The Kissing Of Kissing (Multiverse)Author: Hannah EmersonPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 08, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland--weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the...

These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation...

MILKWEED NATIONAL FICTION PRIZE WINNERINDIE HEARTLAND BESTSELLERONE BOOK SOUTH DAKOTA SELECTIONMINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALISTMIDWEST BOOKSELLERS BOOK AWARD FINALIST Grey Rabbit, an Ojibwe woman living...

A book that makes grand promises and delivers (New York Times), The Mannequin Makers is an unforgettable debut novel about art, imitation, and obsession.Author: Craig CliffPublisher: Milkweed...

A poet of our precarious moment . . . James's searing attention is upon the fleeting, the untethered, upon fecundity and decay, the cosmic and the molecular. --CAROLYN FORCHÉAuthor: John...

Poems merging tales of a young Bob Dylan and Echo Helstrom in Northern Minnesota with the classic myth of Echo and Narcissus. --Author: Brian LaidlawPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Oct...

Stately oaks, ivy-covered walls, the opposite sex--these are the things that likely come to mind for most Americans when they think about the "nature" of college. But the real nature of college is...

In these exquisitely crafted prose poems, Melissa Kwasny examines the world around her with the quiet and profound attention of a poet at the height of her powers.The questions that have informed...

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism."The question isn't / what exists," writes Sarah V...

Twin-brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shadow of their family's orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys' grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever...

Since Milkweed Editions' original publication of The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty, Marilyn Chin has been widely celebrated as a consummate poet of the hybrid experience. At once ancient and...

Can the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit,...

Ann Daum's earthy and elegant memoir begins in the present then moves into the past, as Daum tells her story as an independent rancher raising sport horses on what's left of a 30,000-acre spread. In...

An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew...

In the summer of 1964, freedom workers come to a small Mississippi town to register blacks to vote. The quiet pace of the summer changes dramatically for Cooper and his friends Jubal, who is black,...

"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we...

Compelling . . . The Seed Keeper invokes the strength that women, land, and plants have shared with one another through the generations. --ROBIN WALL KIMMERERAuthor: Diane WilsonPublisher: Milkweed...

The Shame: A NovelAuthor: Makenna GoodmanPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Aug 11, 2020Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 157131136XISBN-13:...