Milkweed Editions
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The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World
$20.00 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
“The Quickening is a book of hope.”–Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky
An astonishing, vital work abo
- Author: Rush, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1571311793
- Language: English
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If Today Were Tomorrow: Poems
$20.00 Add to cart“My language was born among trees,
it holds the taste of earth;
my ancestors’ tongue is my home.”
–from “The Old Song of the Blood”A legacy of land and language courses through the pages of this spirit… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Ak’abal, Humberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1571311610
- Language: English
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Transgenesis
$16.00 Add to cartAn excavatory collection of poems tracing the connections between Jewish transfemininity, queer desire, and cultural histories.
Selected by Sean Hill for the National Poetry Series, this collection is … [more below]
- Author: Winter, Ava Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550046
- Language: English
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Losing Music: A Memoir of Art, Pain, and Transformation
$18.00 Add to cart“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 to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon
- Author: Cotter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550763
- Language: English
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The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self
$18.00 Add to cart“Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of … [more below]
- Author: Wayland-Smith, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550968
- Language: English
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Thin Places
$25.00 Read moreAn Indie Next Selection for April 2022
An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experien
- Author: Ní Dochartaigh, Kerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311955
- Language: English
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Behind the Bedroom Wall
$8.00 Add to cartIt is 1942. Korinna, a thirteen-year-old girl in Germany, is an active member of the local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by
- Series: Historical Fiction for Young Readers
- Author: Williams, Laura E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 31 2005
- ISBN10: 1571316582
- Language: English
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The Silenced
$12.00 Add to cartMarena struggles to remember what life was like before the Zero Tolerance Party installed listening devices in every home. Before they murdered her mother and put her father under house arrest. A time
- Author: DeVita, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1571319379
- Language: English
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The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World
$18.00 Add to cartCan 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,
- Series: World as Home
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1571312811
- Language: English
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A Different Distance: A Renga
$16.00 Add to cartAn Indie Next Selection for December 2021
A Ms. Magazine Recommended Read for Fall 2021
In March 2020, France declared a full lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Shortly thereafter, poets
- Author: Hacker, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315519
- Language: English
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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartKingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist
A thoughtful 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 teache
- Author: Charara, Hayan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571315411
- Language: English
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North American Stadiums
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace–the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we a
- Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- Author: Chambers, Grady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315357
- Language: English
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Bone Map: Poems
$16.00 Add to cart“These poems, like light, clarify even as they pierce.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, Sara Eliza Johnson’s stunning, deeply visceral first collection pu
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Johnson, Sara Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1571314695
- Language: English
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Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
$26.00 Add to cartA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018
In 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
- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1571313699
- Language: English
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The Blue Plateau: An Australian Pastoral
$16.00 Add to cartAt 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 seasons
- Author: Tredinnick, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1571313206
- Language: English
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A Year & Other Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning.
Jos Charles’s poems communicate with one ano- Author: Charles, Jos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550224
- Language: English
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North American Odyssey: 12,000 Miles Across the Continent by Kayak, Canoe, and Dogsled
$28.00 Add to cart“Deep down, there is just something that draws us to the land, to wild places. We were there to listen to the land.”
When National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman marry, they se
- Author: Freeman, Amy And Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1571311688
- Language: English
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The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
$16.00 Add to cartWritten 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 W
- Author: Lu Chi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571314121
- Language: English
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Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
$16.00 Read moreAs 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 horror–of
- Author: McLeod, Darrel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313877
- Language: English
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The Echo Chamber: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFrom Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining.
“Narcissus was never one to see himself
- Author: Bazzett, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315381
- Language: English
