{"product_id":"low-flying-planes","title":"LOW FLYING PLANES","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","brand":"Hajjar Baban","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":53122848686397,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9c4e0bd6-5600-4725-b06b-0aa022d8a842.jpg?v=1790007680","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/low-flying-planes","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}