Milkweed Editions
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A History of Half-Birds: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartSelected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history’s most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us.
Rooted in the … [more below]
- Series: Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry
- Author: New, Caroline Harper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1571315306
- Language: English
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Tethered to Stars: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021
A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos–intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.
Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tong
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315349
- Language: English
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Lying in: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.
“All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the sh
- Author: Metzger, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639550100
- Language: English
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The Wanting Way: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartIn The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent–Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to “extend the choreography.”
In fact, his entire t… [more below]
- Series: Multiverse
- Author: Wolfond, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1571315500
- Language: English
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Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartAn exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.
In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the love
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1571315012
- Language: English
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A Year & Other Poems
$22.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1571315470
- Language: English
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Haymaker in Heaven
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of Norway’s leading writers, translated into English for the very first time, comes a transatlantic novel of dreams, sacrifice, and transformation set at the turn of the twentieth century.
T- Author: Hoem, Edvard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311297
- Language: English
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Vapor: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartSara 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 yearning … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Sara Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639550585
- Language: English
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Jewelweed
$16.00 Read moreFrom a masterful storyteller, comes a Midwestern epic that illuminates the majestic in the commonplace.
When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the 1970s, he was hailed as “a brilli
- Author: Rhodes, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1571311068
- Language: English
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Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
$16.00 Add to cart“More than forty years of history bookend a lifelong love affair with reading for the resilient heroine of [this] novel set in Harvester, Minnesota.” —Kirkus Reviews
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book
- Author: Sullivan, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1571311122
- Language: English
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Roofwalker
$15.00 Add to cartIn Roofwalker, Native American writer Susan Power explores the complexities of contemporary Native American life. Featuring both fiction and nonfiction — “stories” and “histories” — the book shows t… [more below]
- Series: Milkweed National Fiction Prize
- Author: Power, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 157131041X
- Language: English
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Dream Wheels
$16.00 Add to cartChampion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters. Unsure of wh
- Author: Wagamese, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1571311173
- Language: English
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
$20.00 Add to cart“Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” –NPR
Beloved author Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s celebrated work of nonfiction, now including additional essays and illustrations.
As a child, Nezh
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550569
- Language: English
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Aviary
$16.00 Add to cartA masterful novel illuminating the rich and hidden facets of human character among the residents of a senior residence in Montana–and “a cleansing antidote to the last few years of political and cult… [more below]
- Author: McNamer, Deirdre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311424
- Language: English
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When the Whales Leave
$14.00 Add to cartNau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky above the Shingled Spit. But her greatest jo
- Series: Seedbank #3
- Author: Rytkheu, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1571311319
- Language: English
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Hell’s Bottom, Colorado
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. “An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers.”–Publishers Weekly
On Hell’s Bottom Ranch, a section of land bel
- Author: Pritchett, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: October 15 2001
- ISBN10: 1571310363
- Language: English
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Ordinary Wolves
$20.00 Add to cartEskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness: “A magnificently realized story” (New York Times Book Review).
Ordinary Wolves depict
- Author: Kantner, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1571311211
- Language: English
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The Shame
$18.00 Add to cartA “startlingly original” novel of “recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make” (Alexander Chee, Paris Review).
Alma and her family
- Author: Goodman, Makenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 157131136X
- Language: English
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Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
$20.00 Add to cartGutenberg’s invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persiste
- Author: Miller, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1571313540
- Language: English
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Painting Beyond Walls
$28.00 Read moreIt is 2027. August Helm is thirty years old. A biochemist working in a lab at the University of Chicago, he is swept off his feet by the beautiful and entirely self-assured Amanda Clark. Animated by A… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311416
- Language: English
