{"product_id":"return-flight-by-jennifer-huang-9781571315281","title":"Return Flight","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturn Flight\u003c\/em\u003e, selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eReturn Flight\u003c\/em\u003e asks \"what name \/ do you crown yourself,\" 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 Jennifer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReturn Flight\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471461630188,"sku":"9781571315281","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781571315281-return-flight.jpg?v=1775244132","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/return-flight-by-jennifer-huang-9781571315281","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}