{"product_id":"return-paperback-6","title":"Return - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Lee Luan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Emily Lee Luan is the author of I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, Best New Poets 2019, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University-Newark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732310003775,"sku":"9781643621746","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2223a6a71aec1e7cb6fae1474ac90e5f.webp?v=1765132035","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/return-paperback-6","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}