THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER
Kimiko Hahn, . . Norton, $21.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-393-05102-5
The titular poet-daughter of this sixth volume dwells in a dark, sexually fervent, phantasmagoric world inspired by Germanic fairy tales. Oozing rivers, bloody cages and the artist's studio decorated "in half a dozen versions of black" are ruled over by the precepts of Freud and Jung via modern sadomasochistic imagery: "if he turns his gaze, she will beat him bloody until there is nothing left but a pile of teeth. She will hold a mirror in front of herself so all he can see are her fingertips and crown." Notes on dismemberment and bits from
Reviewed on: 08/19/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
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