{"product_id":"low-flying-planes-hajjar-baban-9781639551316","title":"Low Flying Planes: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by Jake Skeets for the 2025 National Poetry Series, a reverent and revelatory debut examining language, memory, and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You looked at me like there was no \/ nest in my throat,\" Hajjar Baban writes in this spare, striking collection. \"Like I knew how \/ to sing. Like it was okay I had nowhere \/ to be.\" Writing from a mixed Afghan Kurdish heritage, she navigates the truth that exists between memory and erasure. Equal measures grounded and unmoored, the poems in \u003ci\u003eLOW FLYING PLANES\u003c\/i\u003e search for answers to the impossible question of belonging, catching fragmented glimpses of \"the plane intercepting sight of the shooting \/ star,\" \"satellites in the night sky,\" \"the language my father \/ didn't invite me to.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWielding a breakable and cautious syntax, Baban writes with a precision that highlights the complexity of interiority under surveillance and the tension between safety and yearning. Our speaker is hypervigilant and uncommonly observant, seeking to understand what language cannot capture: layered volumes of loss, the unshakable instinct to hide, \"a name for how my father looks \/ at the sky.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuarded yet resolute, inquisitive yet profoundly wise, \u003ci\u003eLOW FLYING PLANES\u003c\/i\u003e paints absence into a tangible shape. \"If language is to be made whole, if memory, if truth,\" Jake Skeets writes of this collection, \"it begins with a book like this.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hajjar Baban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 163955131X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639551316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hajjar Baban","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175889776895,"sku":"9781639551316","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f233a9b-056e-4d0f-83da-01b7238b4bf8.jpg?v=1771336223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/low-flying-planes-hajjar-baban-9781639551316","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}