Milkweed Editions Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
Hayan Charara
Join us in congratulating Hayan Charara, whose collection of poems THESE TREES, THOSE LEAVES, THIS FLOWER, THAT FRUIT is a 2023 Kingsley Tufts Award finalist! https://t.co/exkG09kkYL
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide
Juliet Patterson
Tune in to hear Juliet Patterson speak more about SINKHOLE on @PPB. Fargo folks be sure to catch Juliet at Zandbroz's this Friday at 5:30PM! https://t.co/rhODpgWFfX
Hardcover, 2022
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limón
How fantastic is this animation of @adalimon's poem "How to Triumph Like a Girl" from her collection BRIGHT DEAD THINGS?! 🐎🐎🐎 #WomensHistoryMonth @MTV https://milkweed.org/book/bright-dead-things https://twitter.com/MTV/status/1503007982363193348
Paperback, 2015
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Observatory: Poems
Christopher Brean Murray
We are thrilled to announce that @danalevinpoet has selected Christopher Brean Murray's BLACK OBSERVATORY as the winner of the 2021-22 Jake Adam York Prize! 🎉🎉🎉 @coppernickel Read the full announcement here: https://milkweed.org/blog/christopher-brean-murray-wins-the-sixth-annual-jake-adam-york-prize https://t.co/C4B5z6ZjJa
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes
Nicky Beer
"REAL PHONIES AND GENUINE FAKES is a book that revels in the play inherent in dress-up . . . The most graceful and capacious among us — Dolly Parton certainly being the model again — can allow for all of it to be real." @On_The_Seawall @nbeerpoet 🎭🎭🎭 https://www.ronslate.com/on-real-phonies-and-genuine-fakes-poems-by-nicky-beer/
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Torrin A. Greathouse
"When My Gender is First Named Disorder," from @tagreathouse's WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND, in @NYTmag ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Selected by @VChangPoet ❣️ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/magazine/poem-when-my-gender-is-first-named-disorder.html
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mixed Urn: Poems
Carol Rumens
The "Poem of the Week" in @GuardianBooks is an excerpt from Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr's A DIFFERENT DISTANCE: A RENGA, a collaborative book of poems written during the pandemic. Poet Carol Rumens calls the collection "briskly alive" ✨✨ https://t.co/uJHEsqOK8t
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A Year & Other Poems
Jos Charles
📚 Out today: Jos Charles's A YEAR & OTHER POEMS, a stunning, lyrical meditation on time and mourning. 🎧 Listen to Jos's conversation with @_jeevika on @MorningEdition about her third collection ⬇️ https://t.co/ujvSC2Ax9R
Paperback, 2024
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Worldly Things
Michael Kleber-Diggs
Join us in congratulating @MKDorDiggsy: WORLDLY THINGS is the winner of the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry! 🎉🎉🎉 https://www.washburn.edu/mabee/ksbookaward/ https://t.co/FEMxp6QVHe
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems
Jake Skeets
"One of my favorite new poetry books is EYES BOTTLE DARK WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FLOWERS by Jake Skeets...His poems bring us an intimate portrait of Diné masculinity." @MariposaBoy's new piece for @latimes includes a lovely shoutout to @blackstreakwood! https://t.co/LOPsczyChL
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book