Bøker utgitt av Milkweed Editions

"I Love Information is a vigorous examination of knowledge, belief, and which begets which"--

"Ice is an index of findings from the places most buried by time-in permafrost or in memory-and their brutal excavations"--

"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction"--

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It isedited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Juryand Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, and co-translator of MoikomZeqo’s Zodiac) and co-editor Joanna Luloff (author of the novel Remind Me Again What Happenedand the story collection The Beach at Galle Road)—along with poetry editors Brian Barker (author ofVanishing Acts, The Black Ocean, and The Animal Gospels) and Nicky Beer (author of Real Phonies andGenuine Fakes, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House), and fiction editors Teague Bohlen(author of The Pull of the Earth), Alexander Lumans (whose work has appeared in American ShortFiction, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere), and Christopher Merkner(author of The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic). Since the journal’s relaunch in 2015, work published in Copper Nickel has been regularly selected forinclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, Best Small Fictions, and the PushcartPrize Anthology, and has often been listed as “notable” in the Best American Essays. Contributors to Copper Nickel have received numerous honors for their work, including the NobelPrize; the National Book Critics Circle Award; the Pulitzer Prize; the Kingsley Tufts PoetryAward; the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; the Laughlin Award; the American, California,Colorado, Minnesota, and Washington State Book Awards; the Georg Büchner Prize; the PrixMax Jacob; the Lenore Marshall Prize; the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; the Anisfield-WolfBook Award; the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award; the Lambda Literary Award; as well asfellowships from the NEA and the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Witter Bynner,Soros, Rona Jaffee, Bush, and Jerome Foundations. Copper Nickel is published twice a year, on March 15 and October 15, and is distributed nationallyto bookstores and other outlets by Publishers Group West (PGW) and Media Solutions, LLC. Issue 35 Includes: • Poetry Translation Folios with work by four 21st century female poets: emerging Korean poetKim Yurim, translated by Megan Sungyoon; emerging Spanish poet Beatriz Miralles de Imperial,translated by Layla Benitez-James; Khazakhstani Russian-Language poet Aigerim Tazhi, translatedby J. Kates; and emerging Italian poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto, translated by Gabriella Fee andDora Malech. • New Poetry by National Book Award finalist Leslie Harrison; Kingsley Tufts Award-winnerAngie Estes; Guggenheim Fellow Eric Pankey; Whiting Award-winner Joel Brouwer; Felix PollackPrize-winner Emily Bludworth de Barrios; as well as emerging poets Ariana Benson, Chee Brossy,Dorsey Craft, Asa Drake, Anthony Immergluck, Luisa Maraadyan, Stephanie Niu, Ben Swimm,and many others. • New Fiction by recent NEA Fellow Sean Bernard and emerging writers Molly Beckwith Gutman,Chemutai Kiplagat, and Sean Madden. • New Essays by James Laughlin Prize-winner Kathryn Nuernberger and emerging essayist DespyBoutris.

"A Seedbank series title from Tue Sy--poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam--in his first collection of poems in English"--

"Moving back and forth from the tumultuous years surrounding Partition to the era of renewed global sectarianism following 9/11, this extraordinary historical novel portrays a family and nations divided by the living legacy of colonialism"--

The formative years of Milkweed Editions – a story told by its cofounder. In the 1970s and ‘80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged. With a variety of missions, literary, social, political, these small publishers shared a desire to prioritize quality over quantity. One was Milkweed Chronicle, the literary and visual arts journal launched in 1980 by writer Emilie Buchwald and artist R.W. Scholes in Minneapolis that would become Milkweed EditionsA Milkweed Chronicle is the first-person account by cofounder Emilie Buchwald of how the journal morphed into an award-winning nonprofit literary press. It is the story of writers who established Milkweed’s reputation for excellence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—and especially, by the mid-1990s, in books about the natural world. And it is also the story of the editors and staff who established and first achieved Milkweed’s mission of publishing transformative literature.

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between. When Return Flight asks “what name / do you crown yourself,” Jennifer Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains—a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self—and peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Huang’s poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a “myth a mess of myself.” Sensuously, Huang depicts each of these not as things to claim but as topographies to behold and hold. Here, too, is another kind of mythology. Set to the music of “beating hearts / through objects passed down,” the poems travel through generations—among Taiwan, China, and America—cataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfather’s smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a child’s bowl, a slap felt decades later—the result is a map of a present-day life, reflected through the past.Return Flight is a thrumming debut that teaches us how history harrows and heals, often with the same hand; how touch can mean “purple” and “blue” as much as it means intimacy; and how one might find a path toward joy not by leaving the past in the past, but by “[keeping a] hand on these memories, / to feel them to their ends.”

Collection is winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by poet Dana Levin, and a debut collection from the author, who has been widely published in literary journals Colorado Review, New Ohio Review, among othersStrong blurb from Jake Adam York Prize judge Dana Levin, who says "reading these poems is like embarking on a Twilight Zone episode where Franz Kafka bumps into Salvador Dalí . . . this is a singular debut"

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere.Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker’s 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a young woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on—with wide-ranging contributions from Carolyn Finney, Ronald Greer II, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sean Hill, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Glynn Pogue, Katie Robinson, and Lauret Savoy—unearthing evidence of the ways Black people’s relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, state-sponsored violence, and structurally racist policies like Jim Crow and redlining.A scrapbook, a family chest, a quilt—and an astounding work of historical engagement and literary accomplishment—A Darker Wilderness is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.

From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens.In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a fatal diagnosis, how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body meant to bend & breed opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our common griefs so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like thesea dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates.Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a child who wont ever get born: with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. You think your one life preciousAnd Bad Hobby thinkshard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces inside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us. And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. Dont worry, baby, Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. Were okay.

Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlis Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song.Pavlis collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on her own terms to the very end. Kates shadow hovers like a penumbra over these pages that unfold a kaleidoscope of her world. A small-town apartment full of paintings & burritos & pyramid-shaped empty bottles of Patron & an ad hoc anthology of vibrators. A banged-up Jeep, loose syringes underfoot, rattles under Colorado skies. Near an ICU bed, Pavli agonizes over the most difficult questions, while doctors swish off to the tune of their thin-soled leather loafers. And a diary, left behind, brims with revelations of vulnerability nearly as great as Pavlis own.But Call It in the Air records more than a relationship between brother and sister, more than a moment of personal loss. I sit while eleven bodies of mine fall all over the countless mysteries of who you are, he writes, while Somewhere along the way, heat blasting past us & out the open jeep, the mountain sky turned to black steel & swung open its empty mouth. In moments like these, Pavli recognizes something of his big sister everywhere.Rived by loss and ravaged by grief, Call It in the Air mingles the voices of brother and sister, one falling and one forgiven, to offer an intimate elegy that meditates on love itself.

"Béchard's poetic gifts give voice to the outsiders of society, and make them glow with humanity and love." -ELIZABETH MCKENZIE

"Beautifully written, masterfully structured, and brimming with insight into the natural world . . . It has the makings of an American classic." -ANN PATCHETT

Marena struggles to remember what life was like before the Zero Tolerance Party installed listening devices in every home. Before they murdered her mother and put her father under house arrest. A time when difference was celebrated.When the new Minister of Education cracks down in her school, eliminating personal expression and independent thought, Marena decides she has to fight back. Fueled by her memories and animated by her mother’s spirit, Marena forms a resistance group–the White Rose. With little more than words, Marena defies the state officers lurking around every corner, and embarks on a campaign of life-affirming civil disobedience.The Silenced draws on the true story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, a movement that courageously resisted the Nazis. In an era when new technologies are accompanied by increasing surveillance, this is a powerfully relevant story of the enormous change that is possible when one person is courageous enough to speak the truth to power.

A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be gooda good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves separate / from [our] thoughts and experiences. After all, No work of love / will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart. But how do we act on fullness of heart? How, knowing as we do that genocide is inscribed in our earliest and holiest texts?Thoughtful but never preachy, Charara sits beside us, granting us access to lifes countless unglamorous dilemmas: crushing a spider when we promised we wouldnt, nearing madness from a newborns weeping, resenting our lovers for what happened in a dream. Good poems demand to be written from inside the poet, we are reminded. And that is where we find ourselves here: inside a lively and ethical mind, entertained by Chararas good company even as goodness challenges us to do more.

"In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen"--

Author is a writer and book critic who has been widely published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Huffington PostAuthor is a filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced the feature documentary The Song of the Little Road, starring Martin Scorsese and Ravi Shankar, which premiered at Sundance Film FestivalThe book's celebration of the wonders of the natural world, birds, and birding around the world, and its exploration of the immigrant experience will appeal to readers of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders, which has sold over 350K copies, as well as to readers of J. Drew Lanham's memoir The Home PlaceAccording to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services, more than 45 million people watch birds around their homes and away from their homes

Author is a nonspeaking autistic artist who has built a large following in the interdisciplinary communitiesAuthor has been widely published in Poem-a-Day, Poets.org, and the Poetry Society of AmericaStrong blurb from Lauren RussellBook is second in a major new series from the publisher, Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by neurodivergent writers—which will be significantly promoted by the publisher through media campaigns, advertising, and exclusive digital contentBook's perspective and engagement with the experiences of a nonspeaking autistic artist, and its engagement with the natural world, is a groundbreaking and accessible addition to a market that lacks these perspectives

It is 2027. August Helm is thirty years old. A biochemist working in a lab at the University of Chicago, he is swept off his feet by the beautiful and entirely self-assured Amanda Clark. Animated by August's consuming desire, their relationship quickly becomes intimate. But when he stumbles across a liaison between the director of his lab and a much younger student, his position is eliminated and his world upended. August sets out to visit his parents in Words, an unincorporated village in the heart of Wisconsin's Driftless Area. Here, he reconnects with several characters from his past: Ivan Bookchester, who now advocates for "new ways of living" in an age of decline; Hanh, formerly known as Jewelweed, who tends her orchard and wild ginseng, keenly attuned to new patterns of migration resulting from climate change and habitat destruction; and Lester Mortal, the aging veteran and fierce pacifist who long ago rescued her from Vietnam. Together, the old friends fall back into a familiar closeness. But much as things initially seem unchanged in the Driftless, when August is hired to look after Tom and April Lux's home in Forest Gate, he finds himself in the midst of an entirely different social set, made up of wealthy homeowners who are mostly resented by the poorer surrounding communities, and distanced in turn by their fear of the locals. August soon falls head over heels for April, and different versions of his self collide: one in which the past is still present in tensions and dreams, another in which he understands his desire as genetically determined and chemically induced, and then a vaguely hoped-for future with April. When Lester is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, Ivan comes clean on a ghastly past episode, and April makes a shocking revelation, a series of events ensues that will change all involved forever.   As approachable as it is profound in exploring the human condition and our shared need for community, this is a story for our times.