{"product_id":"return-9781643621746","title":"Return","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrough the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, \u003c\/i\u003e回 \/ Return\u003ci\u003e captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese \"reversible\" poem, 回 \/ \u003ci\u003eReturn\u003c\/i\u003e is engaged in the act of looking back--toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, \u003cb\u003eEmily Lee Luan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eI Watch the Boughs\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2021, Best New Poets 2019, American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University-Newark.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631805075730,"sku":"9781643621746","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a3e0d0d-400a-4fc2-8d03-2d17ba04f426.jpg?v=1732784516","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/return-9781643621746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}