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An NPR Most Anticipated Book of the Summer
“A generous invitation to follow the many streams that flow into the river of Gary Paul Nabhan’s remarkable life and work.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
“I have waited decades for these…
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Winner of the Vermont Book Award
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHour
A Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”
Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving…
A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.
Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium…
Selected by Jake Skeets for the 2025 National Poetry Series, a reverent and revelatory debut examining language, memory, and identity.
“You looked at me like there was no / nest in my throat,” Hajjar Baban writes in this spare, striking collection….
“Erratica maps deeper meaning onto the rocks we climb with lyric reflections, philosophical explorations, and campfire-caliber storytelling that kept me reading late into the night.”—Maya Silver, editor-in-chief of Climbing Magazine
Part adventure…
A collection of “oracular, crystalline, and utterly original” poems wrestling with a life’s shifting social structures and the multifaceted totality of the self (Maggie Millner).
Elizabeth Metzger’s third collection traces both holding on and letting…
From National Book Award Finalist Fady Joudah, a collection of poems, essays, and photographs that offers a Palestinian representation of not only the staggering grief, but the unwavering resilience and prevailing life force of a people and place…
These poems are deeply generous to the reader, serious and playful, alchemizing and liberating.”—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and Goldenrod
The seventh collection by award-winning poet Erika Meitner, Assembled Audience e…
“The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration
Growing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was…
A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.
From acclaimed poet and scholar Rajiv Mohabir, a brilliantly crafted retelling of the ancient Ramayan that valorizes the epic poem’s queer heart.
Rajiv Mohabir first learned of the Ramayan from his grandmother while sitting on his parents’ brown-tiled…
A dual-language collection examining impermanence as the source of beauty from one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets writing in German.
Over the course of a partnership spanning nearly two decades, poets Jan Wagner and David Keplinger have…
In an ancient Moroccan apiary, a young boy’s inheritance of bees is endangered by climate change, family secrets, and the silence surrounding grief.
High in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, surrounded by valleys once rich with lavender and thyme…
Selected by Patricia Smith for the Jake Adam York Prize, an unflinching, profoundly gorgeous debut collection about beauty, pain, and the resilience of the human spirit.
In the haze of gothic nightclubs, in the stark pang of childhood memories and…
Tactile and synesthetic, Pink Theory! is a migratory exploration of image, poetic form, and philosophy that declares, “We cannot make the world alone.”
“We begin with the alphabet. Then we go anywhere,” writes Éireann Lorsung in her vibrant fifth…
The luminous follow-up to the phenomenal collection that launched Milkweed’s Multiverse series, Hannah Emerson’s Reality Reality Reality sings the universe back to itself.
In Hannah Emerson’s incomparable second collection, reality is material…
A stunning debut memoir examining the end of a marriage and the path to self-discovery—and the wisdom of birds that guides the way.
After the heartbreaking and surprisingly swift end of her marriage, Elizabeth Grey surveys the remnants of a life no…
