{"product_id":"low-flying-planes-poems-paperback","title":"Low Flying Planes: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHajjar Baban\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHajjar Baban\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet. Her work appears in publications including \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, where she won the 2025 Poetry Contest, selected by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Baban is also a cofounder of the Kurdish Poets Collective. \u003ci\u003eLOW FLYING PLANES\u003c\/i\u003e is her first full-length book of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54054648643891,"sku":"9781639551316","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/zBRch6CT4t9781639551316.webp?v=1789030328","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/low-flying-planes-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}