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Author: Jennifer Huang Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 1571317171 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 79
Book Description
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight 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 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. Here, 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. Return Flight 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.”
Author: Jennifer Huang Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 1571317171 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 79
Book Description
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight 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 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. Here, 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. Return Flight 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.”
Author: Jon Doust Publisher: Fremantle Press ISBN: 1925816400 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
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It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Jack is running again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel. In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking those things he needs: a mother's precious gift, a lover in a time of war, the loss of a child, a kind and steady woman. And, across time and across continents, old Jack Muir will remember those who helped him become a decent man, a better father and a friend.
Author: David Nesbit Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore ISBN: 1482879220 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
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At 23 and fresh out of university, life is just starting for Della, a young Indonesian woman with the world seemingly at her feet. A loving family, a caring boyfriend and a seemingly golden career path ahead of her mean she should be feeling on top of the world. And yet.....it still isn’t enough. Taking some time out, she decides to move to London and new horizons and in doing so opens herself up to a whole new world and way of life. Moving into a shared flat, she soon meets Stacey, a young English woman with a troublesome past, and it isn’t long before the two of them are drawn into a nefarious twilight world of gangsters, intrigue and shady dealings. Getting dragged further into murky waters, Della finds herself being drawn back to her homeland and into the middle of a scheme that could either see her realise her dreams or else land her in a whole lot of trouble!
Author: Captain Skip Rowland Publisher: eBook Partnership ISBN: 0999183613 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 332
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Readers around the world were enthralled by the first voyage of Skip Rowland and his yacht 'Endymion'. In this second leg of No Return Ticket, Skip tells of his further adventures battling storms, a flooded river, a host of maritime dangers and narrowly avoiding capture by pirates.This is a story of real-life adventure at sea, told by a master story teller.
Author: Nicholas Rety Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 149695596X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 419
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This is a boys firsthand account of the Second World War siege of Budapest and the trials of its aftermath, transitioning to an English private school and tough days in London on the way to medical school. Emerging as a urological surgeon, the journey continues to far-flung places, always keeping the human focus. A life lived to the full, it finds the author taking up flying at age fifty-six, something to rekindle the flying daydreams of the armchair pilot.
Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick Publisher: Next Chapter ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 203
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Recently promoted to sergeant, Don Barton is back at Newbury where he is placed in charge of a dysfunctional team of young constables. While he strives to knock his shift into shape, darker forces are conspiring against him. The psychopathic terrorist, Irene, has been released from prison and is determined to take revenge on Don for his part in her arrest. At the same time, a patient walks away from an Oxfordshire mental hospital, ready to declare war on the world. Back in Newbury, Sean Treadaway, a vicious local thug, has vowed to rip Don’s lungs out. When he needs support the most, Don’s old boss has retired only to be replaced by a superintendent who hates him for damaging his career. Can Don survive the convergence of evil that now surrounds him, and bring the criminals to justice?
Author: Steven A. Ruffin Publisher: Zenith Press ISBN: 0760347921 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
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Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn't end as planned. The history of aviation is full of accounts of history's most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return? - A celebrated millionaire--who also happened to be the world's foremost aviator--lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and disappeared. - The glamorous son of a beloved fallen president took off on a hazy summer night in 1999 and plunged himself and two others into the Atlantic Ocean. - A US Navy blimp landed one Sunday morning in 1942 in the middle of a city street in California with no one aboard. Some of these "non-returns" occurred because of errors in judgment; others were intentional, and some resulted from causes still unknown. Get the full, meticulous account of the fascinating people involved in these flights, the mistakes they made, and the ways in which their "flight of no return" affected the world. Pilot and aviation writer Steven A. Ruffin covers the entire 230-year span of manned flight in all types of aircraft through war and peace. Balloons, blimps, biplanes, jets, and spaceships have all suffered mishaps over the years. Don't miss the mystery, adventure, intrigue, and a sprinkling of the supernatural and extraterrestrial in Flights of No Return.