"A wholly avant-garde book of poetry that reveals a queer history embedded in the castaway detritus of our language." — BookpageA Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeLonglisted for the National Book AwardA New Yorker Best Poetry Book of the YearA Vulture Best Poetry Book of 2018

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 H...