Series: Ballard Spahr Prize

Return Flight, 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. When Return Flight asks "what name / do you crown yourself," Huang answers with many. Textured with mountains—a folkloric goddess-prison, Yushan, mother, men, self—and peppered...