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A wonderful place to start if you've never read Wagamese, a must-read if you have, and an indispensable read for everyone." -LITERARY HUB

A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining-and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our present-day selves.

Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.” A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terro...

[Wagamese] is such a master of empathy . . . that what Saul discovers becomes something the reader learns, as well, shocking and alien, valuable and true." -JANE SMILEY

One of the finest writers working today." -Minneapolis Star Tribune

Kirkpatrick's poems give us the world as it truly is." -JIM MOORE

From the celebrated author of Medicine Walk and Indian Horse, a deeply moving self-portrait, in the form of letters to the son from whom he was estranged.

A book for the age of the cloud, a volume of poetry that is at once novelistic and intensely lyrical." -KHALED MATTAWA

Eric Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it." -DAN BEACHY-QUICK

Unmistakably of today's America, even as it mines the timeless concerns of loss and memory." -WAYNE MILLER

Keine Beschreibung.

This powerful, absorbing first book has the sound and feel of a younger generation." -HENRI COLE

Milkweed's Seedbank series is one of the most exciting and visionary projects in contemporary publishing. Taking the long view, these volumes run parallel to the much-hyped books of the moment to demonstrate the possibility and hope inherent in all great literature." -STEPHEN SPARKS, POINT REYES BOOKS

I will read more books in my life but I will not love another book more than this one." -MARY-LOUISE PARKER

Luminous . . . Collins renders the most humbling, gorgeous, and inscrutable features of human existence as if they might be made legible." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The times have never been darker, yet Alex Lemon's imagination has never been more hopefully wild." -RICK BAROT

An allegorical coming-of-age story told in a trusting and curious voice . . . Damas keeps us enthralled as [François] unravels the family mystery." -BBC

A beloved author returns to an out-of-the-way community and introduces a cast of characters who must overcome the burdens left by the past. After serving time for a dubious conviction, Blake is paroled. As Blake attempts to adjust, he reconnects with a single mother and her friends.

WINNER OF THE MILKWEED PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2013 PATERSON PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS ALA RAINBOW LIST RECOMMENDED BOOK AMELIA BLOOMER PROJECT LIST RECOMMENDED BOOK LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOREWARD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR HONORABLE MENTION In the summer of 1926, sixteen-year-old Garnet Richardson is sent to a lake resort to escape the polio epidemic in the city. She dreams of...

One of the best young American poets writing today, Adam Clay engages fully with the natural world, gracefully dredging up the mysteries embedded in modern life-paper dolls clipped from the morning news, the ringing ears of lightning-strike victims-and bringing 'the patient sadness that will outwait the memory of a spark' to life in precise swirls of language. Each poem shimmers with physical and metaphysical insight, and Clay's endless storms...