{"title":"Series: Ballard Spahr Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBallard Spahr Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e series presents a diverse selection of thought-provoking works spanning \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, psychology, finance, history, and technology\u003c\/em\u003e. Readers can explore insightful analyses and practical perspectives that challenge conventional thinking and inspire new approaches to understanding the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom engaging travel narratives and children’s stories to essential guides on health, business, and computing, this collection offers an enriching variety of subjects for curious minds. Each title invites readers to delve deeply into its field with clarity and originality.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"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":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781571315281-return-flight.jpg?v=1775244132"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-ballard-spahr-prize.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}