Milkweed Editions

  • Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964-2014

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    An authoritative volume representing the vast oeuvre of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and visionary poets.

    Widely regarded as some of the most important and innovative poetry from postw… [more below]

    • Author: Salamun, Tomaz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 21 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639550402
    • Language: English
  • A Hole in the Story

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    A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025

    A Kirkus Starred Review

    “A cunning writer with masterful timing and an outrageous sense of humor.”–Gary Shteyngart

    An irreverent, darkly comic novel dissecting th

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    • Author: Kalfus, Ken
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1571315756
    • Language: English
  • The Ocean in the Next Room: Poems

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    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. Sc

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    • Series: Jake Adam York Prize
    • Author: Schweig, Sarah V.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1571315632
    • Language: English
  • The Choreic Period: Poems

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    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 Cere… [more below]

    • Series: Multiverse
    • Author: Ba, Latif Askia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1639551182
    • Language: English
  • Conversations with Birds

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    A 2023 Firecracker Award Finalist
    An Apple November 2022 Best Book of the Month

    “Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.”

    So begins this lively collection of essays by accla… [more below]

    • Author: Kumar, Priyanka
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571313990
    • Language: English
  • Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life

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    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 co[more below]

    • Author: Chaskey, Scott
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 1571311971
    • Language: English
  • Losing Music

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    A Vulture 2023 Best Book of the Year

    “I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.”

    John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began t

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    • Author: Cotter, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1571311947
    • Language: English
  • Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

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    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD

    A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018

    A GUARDIAN, NPR’s SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOU

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    • Author: Rush, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: March 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1571313818
    • Language: English
  • House of Caravans

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    A marvelous debut novel exploring the fractures caused by the Partition of India, as well as the legacy and contemporary parallels of sectarian violence around the world.

    Lahore, British India. 1943. A… [more below]

    • Author: Suneja, Shilpi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550143
    • Language: English
  • We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine

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    A haunting novel exploring artificial intelligence and the meaning of human existence.

    Charged initially with a single task–“to never harm humans and to protect them”–the machine, an experimental AI,

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    • Author: Ellis Béchard, Deni
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 424
    • Publish Date: January 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1571311483
    • Language: English
  • The Final Voicemails: Poems

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    “Even present tense has some of the grace of past tense, / what with all the present tense left to go.” From Max Ritvo–selected and edited by Louise Gl?k–comes a final collection of poems fully insc

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    • Author: Ritvo, Max
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: September 18 2018
    • ISBN10: 157131511X
    • Language: English
  • Philomath: Poems

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    Winner of the 2022 Levis Reading Prize
    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s 2021 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
    A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Pick” for Fall 2021 Poetry Titles
    A Library

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    • Author: Walker-Figueroa, Devon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 1571315225
    • Language: English
  • The Blue Sky

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    A boy’s nomadic life in Mongolia is under threat in a novel that “captures the mountains, valleys and steppes in all their surpassing beauty and brutality” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

    In the high Altai

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    • Series: Seedbank #4
    • Author: Tschinag, Galsan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: June 09 2020
    • ISBN10: 1571311394
    • Language: English
  • Feeld

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    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
    FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
    A NEW YORKER BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018
    A VULTURE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018

    A LIBRARY JOURN

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    • Author: Charles, Jos
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 14 2018
    • ISBN10: 1571315055
    • Language: English
  • Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South

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    Winner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize
    Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
    An Indie Next Selection for September 2021
    A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 20

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    • Author: Renkl, Margaret
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 157131184X
    • Language: English
  • Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home

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    “Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”–David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

    Growing up in Montana, Chris La Tray alway… [more below]

    • Author: La Tray, Chris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 1571313982
    • Language: English
  • The Cloud Path: Poems

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    An imaginative reworking of the elegy that focuses on the difficult work of being with the dying.

    At the heart of The Cloud Path, celebrated author Melissa Kwasny’s seventh collection of poetry, lies t… [more below]

    • Author: Kwasny, Melissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639550925
    • Language: English
  • Moving the Bones

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    A vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.

    “You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there … [more below]

    • Author: Barot, Rick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1571315640
    • Language: English
  • The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water

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    “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 start[more below]

    • Author: Dombrowski, Chris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1639550631
    • Language: English
  • Without Her: A Chronicle of Grief and Love

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    “What is comfort but a filament between past and present with some sort of future implied? In other words, safety. In other words, care. I know it is possible to find these things without her–I know

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    • Author: Spiegel, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 1571311963
    • Language: English
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