Milkweed Editions imprint: 149 books

by Christopher Howell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

Christopher Howell’s haunted and haunting collection, Gaze, is a book of counterpoints, swinging between moments of delicate connection (touching a girl’s wrist) and striking brutality (a boy slamming a just-caught fish against a boat’s stern to kill it “as he was taught”). Howell explores how...
by Sean Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as "transcendent" (Kevin Young) and "steadily confident" (Carl Phillips), Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker throughout North America and abroad, illuminating the ways in which home and place may inhabit one another comfortably or uncomfortably-or both...

Receipt

Poems

by Karen Leona Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016

In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents - recipes and receipts - into expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs...

The Carrying

Poems

by Ada Limón
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace...

Trace

Poems

by Eric Pankey
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013

His arresting ninth collection of poems, Eric Pankey’s Trace locates itself at a threshold between faith and doubt-between the visible and the invisible, the say-able and the ineffable, the physical and the metaphysical. Also a map of the poet’s journey into a deep depression, these poems confront...
by Dan Beachy-Quick
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

Midway through the journey of his life, Dan Beachy-Quick found himself without a path, unsure how to live well. Of Silence and Song follows him on his resulting classical search for meaning in the world and in his particular, quiet life. In essays, fragments, marginalia, images, travel writing, and...

Bone Map

Poems

by Sara Eliza Johnson, Martha Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms,...
by Arlene Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011

In her stunning debut poetry collection, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim confronts the ways in which language mythologizes memory and, thus, exiles us from our own true histories. Juxtaposing formal choices and dreamlike details, Kim explores the entangled myths that...
by William Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems, William...
by Fady Joudah
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

Author has received a PEN award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize (2013) Author’s past work has been reviewed by or featured in Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, Booklist, and Guernica We expect strong blurbs and ordering from the poetry community, as author is well respected...
by Caitlin Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017

A debut collection of poems that finds fertile ground in the unknown degree of intimacy, the mysterious and intense relationship, between siblings Georg and Grete Trakl. Georg Trakl is one of the most celebrated poets of the early twentieth century. Less is known about his sister, Grete: also...
by Martha Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

Author’s past work has been reviewed by or featured in Boston Review, Library Journal, and Pleiades We expect strong blurbs and ordering from the poetry community, as Collins is well connected and well respected there Author served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at...
by Rosa Elise Branco
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

Love. Sex. Death. Meat. Traffic. Pets. In Cattle of the Lord, Rosa Alice Branco offers a stunning poetic vision at once sacred and profane, a rich evocation of daily life troubled by uneasy sacramentality. In a collection translated by Alexis Levitin and presented in both Portuguese and English, readers...

Her book

Poems

by Éireann Lorsung
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013

With intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, Éireann Lorsung's inspired second collection.From the poet who brought us Music For Landing Planes By, Éireann Lorsung’s luminous voice is distilled through multiple unnamed female speakers...
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