Milkweed Editions

Acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and...

Adam Wolfond is the author of The Wanting Way. He is a nonspeaking autistic artist, poet, and university lecturer whose work has been featured in multimedia exhibitions, documentary films, academic...

Wherever the people are well informed, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In every issue of modern society--from climate...

A stunning, intricate collection of forty lyric essays juxtaposing natural history, ancient texts, folk heroes, and found objects.Using such models as Joseph Cornell's box constructions, crazy...

Poet, musician, wit, and polemicist--Bill Holm is one of kind. A Minnesotan of Icelandic ancestry, his travels have taken him all over the world, providing material for a number of rich and memorable...

"To read this book is to meet a man who would climb the sky." --BOB HICOKIn his follow-up to Fancy Beasts, a book that "slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of...

A profound debut from a writer of great talent.--Adam JohnsonAuthor: Dalia RosenfeldPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Apr 25, 2017Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

From Hayan Charara comes a candid new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good...

An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of "two...

From the cosmic to the quotidian, this collection of essays by Amy Leach asks us to reconsider our kinship with the wild world.The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting...

Thrown in the Throat (National Poetry Series)Author: Benjamin GarciaPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Aug 11, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet...

Originally published in 1993, this pioneering anthology is a powerful polemic for fundamental cultural change: the transformation of basic attitudes about power, gender, race, and sexuality. This...

One of our brightest talents.--ISHMAEL REEDAuthor: Lee Ann RoripaughPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: March 12, 2019Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for "poem."Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of...

"Lively . . . At times dreamily beautiful." --CHICAGO SUN-TIMESCoding and decoding are threads running through the poems of Uncoded Woman, which together tell the story of a woman named Bead and her...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEIn the century and a half since John James Audubon's death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a...

Sara Eliza Johnson's much-anticipated second collection traces human emotion and experience across a Gothic landscape of glacial and cosmic scale. With a mind informed by physics, and a heart...

A priest struggling with temptation moves back into his working-class childhood home in this "suspenseful, illuminating, and highly readable saga" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Let me begin...

Founded nearly four decades ago by a group of young writers, the Loft has become our nation's largest independent literary center. The dream animating its inception--to build a community of writers...

By leaning into the many registers of heartbreak, Sotelo makes something incredibly beautiful.--Ross GayAuthor: Analicia SoteloPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: February 20, 2018Number of...

"Teaches us how to be the best kind of human beings." --ECLECTICAAs a boy in Colorado, Robert Michael Pyle fell in love with alpine heights and the butterflies that float above the tree line. This...

From the celebrated author of Medicine Walk and Indian Horse, a deeply moving self-portrait, in the form of letters to the son from whom he was estranged.Author: Richard WagamesePublisher: Milkweed...

An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by "a writer of enormous talent" (Newsday).Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi's...

From A. LaFaye, a heartwarming tale of high adventure, family lore, and learning to conquer fear.Shape-shifting selkies, baby-stealing fairies, and spitting in water as a test for liars: Kyna's...

"B?chard digs deep into these techno-spiritual speculations and the result is a poetic and profound meditation on what dreams may come in the metaverse." --Toronto Star A haunting novel exploring...

Wayne Miller's fourth collection of poems engages with questions of morality without clear answers--Author: Wayne MillerPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: March 09, 2021Number of Pages:...

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDIn her stunning debut poetry collection, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim confronts the ways in which language mythologizes memory...

American journalist travels the Congo while writing an exposae on corruption--Author: Deni Ellis BechardPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Oct 09, 2018Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage:...

From the author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood comes a story of family, geography, and home.Janisse Ray is known for her passion for the virgin longleaf pine forests that once covered the South...