Spending time in wild places with their children, Chris Dombrowski learns that their youthful sense of wonder at the beauty and connectivity of the more-than-human world is not naivete to be shed, but rather wisdom most of us lose along the way…
Fragmentary in subject and form, fluid of language, this is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives and labors of girls and women in rural America.
A fable both blistering and surreal, this is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking novel about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons.
“We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.”
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.
From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.
A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.
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.”
From Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.
Now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features, Starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane
From James P. Lenfestey, a collection of poems that lends delicacy and gentle humor to durable, long-lasting love.
Widowed, penniless, responsible for her beloved baby boy, and subject to the small-town gossip of Harvester, Minnesota—Nell Stillman’s lot is not an easy one. Yet she finds strength in lasting friendships and in the rich inner life awakened by the…