Overview
When Return Flight asks āwhat name / do you crown yourself,ā Huang answers with many. Textured with mountainsāa folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, selfāand peppered with shapeshifting creatures, spirits, and gods, the landscape of Jennifer Huangās poems is at once mystical and fleshy, a āmyth a mess of myself.ā 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 ābeating hearts / through objects passed down,ā the poems travel through generationsāamong Taiwan, China, and Americaācataloging familial wounds and beloved stories. A grandfatherās smile shining through rain, baby bok choy in a childās bowl, a slap felt decades laterāthe 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 āpurpleā and āblueā 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 ā[keeping a] hand on these memories, / to feel them to their ends.ā
This book title, Return Flight, ISBN: 9781571315281, by Jennifer Huang, published by Milkweed Editions (January 18, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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