Kimiko Hahn's poetry explores the interplay between her various identities. Her subjects emerge as moving images of the secret self whose mysteries, needs and desires Hahn fearlessly exposes.
This book contains several epistolary poems, addressed to a correspondent known only as "L." These letters, and other lyrics that round out the volume, often focus on the experience of being a woman, a wife, a mother, and a sister, and about the ways that that experience is affected by relationships with others.
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Poetry. "In this book, Kimiko Hahn manages to take the air of atrocity we breathe in daily and turn it into fierce political/lyrical poetry, in the tradition of Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy." Current events ripped open and the entrails exposed in living color. She is one of our strongest poets" (Harvey Shapiro). In "Volatile, Hahn's lyrical ...
Winner of the 1996 American Book Award, this book of lyrics dwells on the death of the poet's mother and the ways that death recast the poet's relationship with her family and, especially, her daughter. The death becomes a starting point for the poet to discuss death and life, sex and birth with her young daughter. Most of the poems here are short ...
"Mosquito and Ant" refers to the style in which "nu fu" - a nearly extinct script used by Chinese women to correspond with one another - is written. In these poems, the narrator corresponds with L about her hidden passions, her relationship with her husband and daughters, lost loves and fantasies.
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