Kimiko Hahn, Author . Norton $21.95 (96p) 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"...
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Kimiko Hahn, Author . Norton $23.95 (109p) ISBN 978-0-393-06189-5
A kind of poet's journal or miscellany, mixing verse with prose, considered ideas with spontaneous exclamations, notes to friends and even e-mails, Hahn's seventh book adapts the traditional Japanese prose poetry genre zuihitsu
to modern...
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Kimiko Hahn, Norton, $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-07662-2
Hahn's eighth book of poems takes its inspiration from the science section of the New York Times. These sharp, gut-punching lyrics quote from and/or borrow the diction of science writing in order to investigate more personal issues, including the...
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Kimiko Hahn, Author Hanging Loose Press $21 (90p) ISBN 978-1-882413-57-7
Bold, brave and sharp, Hahns fourth and fifth books (her third, The Unbearable Heart, won an American Book Award) are large in the range of their concerns and the intensity of their passions. If Volatile sounds pointed in its political rage, it...
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Kimiko Hahn, Author Kaya Press $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-885030-00-9
Hahn (Earshot, winner of 1995 Theodore Roethke Award) finds opportunity in her mother's sudden, accidental death to explain sex, and later cremation, to her young daughters. A marked achievement in Hahn's writing is that these exchanges possess an...
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Kimiko Hahn. Norton, $26.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-43927-4
Under the exquisite vision of Hahn (Brain Fever), familiar objects assume the feel of the sacred. “How to store the object of your ardor, even to stay what harms/ (junk drawer, purse,... flash drive)?” the poet asks and, in response, finds countless
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Kimiko Hahn, Author, Hahn, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (80p) ISBN 978-0-393-04732-5
Bold, brave and sharp, Hahns fourth and fifth books (her third, The Unbearable Heart, won an American Book Award) are large in the range of their concerns and the intensity of their passions. If Volatile sounds pointed in its political rage, it...
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