Milkweed Editions

  • The Book of Kin: On Absence, Love, and Being There

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    The Book of Kin is an expansive experience . . . beautiful, brave, and inventive.”–Hanif Abdurraquib

    A remarkable debut that explores the imperfect ways we care for one another, and how we seek repai

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    • Author: Bowen, Jennifer Eli
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 157131167X
    • Language: English
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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    A New York Times bestseller
    A Washington Post bestseller
    A Los Angeles Times bestseller
    Named a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub
    A Book Riot “Favorite Summer Read of 2020”
    A Food Tank
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    • Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 408
    • Publish Date: August 11 2015
    • ISBN10: 1571313567
    • Language: English
  • […]: Poems

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    Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry

    Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize

    A Reading the West Book Award Finalist

    From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and esse[more below]

    • Author: Joudah, Fady
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 163955128X
    • Language: English
  • The Seed Keeper

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    “Compelling . . . The Seed Keeper invokes the strength that women, land, and plants have shared with one another through the generations.” -ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

    • Author: Wilson, Diane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 392
    • Publish Date: March 09, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1571311378
    • 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
  • All Us Beautiful Monsters: Poems

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    A deeply imaginative collection by a beloved poet with the “ability to slice straight through nerve and marrow on his way to the heart and mind of the matter” (Tracy K. Smith).

    Having extensively detai

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    • Author: Lemon, Alex
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: March 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639551824
    • Language: English
  • Transitions: New and Selected Sonnets

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    New and selected sonnets from a treasured poet who “insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice” (W. S. Merwin)

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    • Author: Hacker, Marilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 1571315721
    • Language: English
  • Nocturama: Poems

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    A dazzling second collection from “an immensely gifted poet” (Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine).

    Spanning Appalachia to California, Will Brewer’s new poems attempt to make sense of some of life’

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    • Author: Brewer, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1571315799
    • Language: English
  • Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

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    “Groundbreaking . . . Chang’s lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family’s time capsule and an artist’s timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.” –NPR

    Now in paperb

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    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: March 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 1571311882
    • Language: English
  • The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives, and Possible Futures

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    An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor.

    “How big is a home?”

    “What is space without reaching?”

    “Yo

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    • Author: Hill, Sean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: March 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639550364
    • Language: English
  • Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World’s Most Alluring Fish

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    Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions–poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly chal

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    • Author: Dombrowski, Chris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: August 15 2017
    • ISBN10: 1571313648
    • Language: English
  • Patient, Female: Stories

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    “Shrewd, sage, and so darkly funny.” –Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Committee Members, a collection of wryly funny stories abou

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    • Author: Schumacher, Julie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: May 05 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639551654
    • Language: English
  • The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming

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    The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written–vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on.”–Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Al

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    • Author: Pelster, Angela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: April 14 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639551239
    • Language: English
  • Blush / River / Fox

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    A raw, sweeping debut collection that interrogates the limits of the human animal and confronts the boundary between fear and freedom.

    The startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygr

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    • Series: Multiverse
    • Author: Nygren, Anna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 162
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 163955176X
    • Language: English
  • Horses: Poems

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    • Author: Skeets, Jake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: March 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639551522
    • Language: English
  • The Last Quarter of the Moon

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    In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country’s hist

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    • Series: Seedbank
    • Author: Zijian, Chi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 1571311475
    • Language: English
  • Lazarus Species

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    From the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal survival.

    Traversing historical, terrestrial, and discursive limits,

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    • Author: Walker-Figueroa, Devon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1571315772
    • Language: English
  • The Company of Owls

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    The Company of Owls is a book filled with wonder, wisdom, and warmth … Her moving and meaningful observations and lyrical prose will stick with you for a long time.”–Sy Montgomery, author of The S

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    • Author: Atkin, Polly
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1639551808
    • Language: English
  • Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural Phenomena

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    An immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau’s final project–a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.

    In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new

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    • Author: Case, Kristen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1571311599
    • Language: English
  • Time Remaining: Body Odes, Praise Songs, Oddities, Amazements

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    An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.

    In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet J… [more below]

    • Author: Lenfestey, James P.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 1571315748
    • Language: English
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