Milkweed Editions

  • Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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    Named a “Best Book of the Year” by New Statesman, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Washington Independent Review of Books

    Southern Book Prize Finalist

    From New York Times contributin

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    • Author: Renkl, Margaret
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: July 09 2019
    • ISBN10: 1571313788
    • Language: English
  • The Kissing of Kissing

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    In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent–Hannah Emerson’s poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, an… [more below]

    • Series: Multiverse
    • Author: Emerson, Hannah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 8, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571315497
    • Language: English
  • The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

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    From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, “multiracial” to “mixedblood,” the diversity of cultures in today’s world is reflected in our richly various stories–stories of creat

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    • Author: Deming, Alison Hawthorne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: February 01 2011
    • ISBN10: 1571313192
    • Language: English
  • Diary of a Young Naturalist

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    From Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.

    Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles th

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    • Author: McAnulty, Dara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 222
    • Publish Date: June 7, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571311831
    • Language: English
  • Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

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    A Kirkus Best Book of October 2021

    From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.

    For Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that

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    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 1571313923
    • Language: English
  • You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

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    Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation


    Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the tr

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    • Author: Abu Al-Hayyat, Maya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: May 10, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571315403
    • Language: English
  • The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature

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    “In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils of love, land,

    • Author: Lanham, J. Drew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 13, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1571313508
    • Language: English
  • Besaydoo: Poems

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    Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home–as place, as people, as body, and as language.

    A griot is a… [more below]

    • Series: Jake Adam York Prize
    • Author: Saweda Kamara, Yalie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 9, 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639550313
    • Language: English
  • Aster of Ceremonies: Poems

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    A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse–a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent–JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, Th[more below]

    • Series: Multiverse
    • Author: Ellis, Jjjjjerome
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550127
    • Language: English
  • Bluest Nude: Poems

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    Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work

    Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make a[more below]

    • Author: Codjoe, Ama
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 13, 2022
    • ISBN10: 157131542X
    • Language: English
  • You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

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    “Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.” -Margaret Renkl, New York Times

    “A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hik[more below]

    • Author: Limón, Ada
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: April 2, 2024
    • ISBN10: 1571315683
    • Language: English
  • Rose Quartz: Poems

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    A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing-and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.

    “Draw me encircled // in something // other

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    • Author: Lapointe, Sasha TaqwsÉ™blu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: 14-Mar-23
    • ISBN10: 1571315438
    • Language: English
  • The Last Language

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    From Jennifer duBois, “one of a handful of living American novelists who can comprehend both the long arc of history and the minute details that animate it” (Karan Mahajan) and “a writer of thrilling [more below]

    • Author: DuBois, Jennifer
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639551085
    • Language: English
  • Sharks in the Rivers

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    The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family’s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world

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    • Author: Limón, Ada
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 01, 1970
    • ISBN10: 1571314385
    • Language: English
  • A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

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    A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023
    A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023

    A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023

    A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation wi

    • Author: Sharkey, Erin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: February 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1571313907
    • Language: English
  • Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year

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    A December 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellers
    A Kirkus Reviews “Most Anticipated Book of the Fall 2023”

    From the acclaimed author of Thin Places, a luminous day book about an unexpected year [more below]

    • Author: N? Dochartaigh, Kerri
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1571311572
    • Language: English
  • Conversations with Birds

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

    So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at the feet of the Hima

    • Author: Kumar, Priyanka
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 12, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639550801
    • Language: English
  • Perma Red

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    Bold, passionate, and more urgent than ever, Debra Magpie Earling’s powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition.

    On the Flathead Indian Reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is d

    • Author: Earling, Debra Magpie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 23, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1571311467
    • Language: English
  • Montana 1948

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    The tragic tale of a Montana family ripped apart by scandal and murder: “a significant and elegant addition to the fiction of the American West” (Washington Post).

    In the summer of 1948, twelve-year-ol

    • Author: Watson, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 186
    • Publish Date: May 25, 2007
    • ISBN10: 1571310614
    • Language: English
  • Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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    Named a “Best Book of the Year” by New Statesman, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Washington Independent Review of Books

    Southern Book Prize Finalist

    From New York Times contributin

    • Author: Renkl, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: March 30, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1571313834
    • Language: English
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