Milkweed Editions

  • 2 A.M. in Little America

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    An Esquire “Best Book of Spring 2022”
    A San Francisco Chronicle “Most Anticipated Novel of 2022”
    A Literary Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2022”


    From “an important writer in every sense” (David Foster Wal

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    • Author: Kalfus, Ken
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1639550771
    • Language: English
  • Let Him Go

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    Now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features, Starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane

    The celebrated author of Montana 1948 returns to the American West in this riveting tale of familial love and its u

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    • Author: Watson, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 02 2014
    • ISBN10: 1571311033
    • Language: English
  • The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest

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    As the Amazon burns, Fábio Zuker shares stories of resistance, self-determination, and kinship with the land.

    In 2007, a seven-ton minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajós River,

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    • Author: Zuker, Fábio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571311815
    • Language: English
  • Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50: Poems

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    “One of our brightest talents.”-ISHMAEL REED

    • Author: Roripaugh, Lee Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: March 12 2019
    • ISBN10: 1571314857
    • Language: English
  • Winter Stranger: Poems

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    Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert’s Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.

    In the cold, seminal country… [more below]

    • Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
    • Author: Holbert, Jackson
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550410
    • 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: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550852
    • Language: English
  • Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes

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    What is illusion-a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem–the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?

    Nicky Beer’s latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine a

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    • Author: Beer, Nicky
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 157131539X
    • Language: English
  • Ice: Poems

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    In a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger’s Ice indexes the findings from memory’s slow melt–stories and faces we’ve forgotten, bones hidden in frost.

    “I am asking… [more below]

    • Author: Keplinger, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 163955016X
    • Language: English
  • Call Up the Waters: Stories

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    A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives and labors of girls and women in rural America.

    In Call Up the Waters, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and a… [more below]

    • Author: Caron, Amber
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550445
    • Language: English
  • Cracking India

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    The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity.

    Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school

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    • Author: Sidhwa, Bapsi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 298
    • Publish Date: January 23 2006
    • ISBN10: 1571310487
    • Language: English
  • Worldly Things

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    “Sometimes,” writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.”

    In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath a… [more below]

    • Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
    • Author: Kleber-Diggs, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 1639550755
    • 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: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550895
    • Language: English
  • Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems

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    Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

    Winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry

    Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry

    Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National P

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    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Skeets, Jake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 10 2019
    • ISBN10: 1571315209
    • Language: English
  • Medicine Walk

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    “A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by.” —Globe and Mail

    When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has m

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    • Author: Wagamese, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 10 2016
    • ISBN10: 1571311165
    • Language: English
  • Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

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    A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry

    A CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry

    A Bustle Best Book of 2020

    A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020

    “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse wri

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    • Author: Greathouse, Torrin A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: December 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 1571315276
    • Language: English
  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

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    From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a “heartfelt and refreshing” (New York Times) memoir tha

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    • Author: Ray, Janisse
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 294
    • Publish Date: November 24 2015
    • ISBN10: 1571313257
    • Language: English
  • Meltwater: Poems

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    A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, “the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and the organelle.”

    “Once there were oarfish, opaleyes

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    • Author: Wahmanholm, Claire
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639551018
    • Language: English
  • Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

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    Winner of the 2022 Banff Mountain Book Award for Environmental Literature
    An Outside Magazine Favorite Book of 2021
    A Book Riot Best Book of 2021
    A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2021


    “Places do not belong

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    • Author: Ali, Kazim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571311750
    • Language: English
  • I Love Information: Poems

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    I Love Information, selected by Brian Teare as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a sophisticated and cerebral examination of knowledge, belief, and which begets which.

    Egret feathers. Pu… [more below]

    • Author: Bush, Courtney
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: August 22 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550038
    • Language: English
  • Ask the Brindled: Poems

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    Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life–the body, a people, their language. It is a[more below]

    • Series: National Poetry
    • Author: Revilla, No’u
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: August 09 2022
    • ISBN10: 1639550003
    • Language: English
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