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A unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magiciansNo matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet’s art depends on a form of...

An evocative braided autobiography in poetry that welcomes miscellany and disorder ... and reveals a mind as vast as the terrains it traverses."--Nicole Sealey, Poetry Foundation

Poetry. AIR POCKET is Kimiko Hahn's first book, a collection rooted in the actual and emotional geography of California. "Kimiko Hahn is so good in so many different ways, it would be impossible not to wish her well"--Vijay Seshadri.

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Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same surprise, wonder, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt upon opening drawer after drawer of these swallowed, and retrieved, objects-a radiator key, a c...

A unique anthology of poems--from around the world and through the ages--that celebrate the gloriously diverse insect world.Given that insects vastly outnumber us--there are approximately 200 million insects for every human--it is no surprise that there is a long and rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, stinging things with which we share our planet. Many cultures have centuries-old traditions of insect verse. In China--where noblewo...

Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same surprise, wonder, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt upon opening drawer after drawer of these swallowed, and retrieved, objects-a radiator key, a c...

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Kimiko Hahn trains her eye on the commonplace-clothespins, bees, papaya, a sponge, fire-revealing their essence with evocative concision.

Acclaimed as "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time" (BOMB), Kimiko Hahn is a shape-shifter, a poet who seeks novel forms for her utterly original subject matter and "stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury Review). In Brain Fever, Hahn integrates the recent findings of science, ancient Japanese aesthetics, and observations from her life as a woman, wife, mother, daughter, and artist. Rooted in medi...

Kimiko) Hahn s frankness . . . allows (these poems) to stand out as starkly fresh as the carnivorous plants she describes. American Poet

Kimiko Hahn, "a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury Review), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu-literally "running brush, " which utilizes tactics such as juxtaposition, contradiction, and broad topical variety-in exploring her various identities as mother and lover, wife and poet, daughter of varied traditions.

An expansive new work from a poet of "rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability" (Mark Doty).

From Kimiko Hahn, the celebrated poet of Earshot, The Unbearable Heart is a superbly composed and passionate book on grief and mourning. The poems are both formally innovative and openly cathartic, individually and collectively compelling, turning on their own axis as they revolve around one another. They span languages, landscapes cultures and perspectives. In The Unbearable Heart, Hahn examines the everchanging meaning of surviving the death...

Acclaimed as "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time" (BOMB), Kimiko Hahn is a shape-shifter, a poet who seeks novel forms for her utterly original subject matter and "stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury Review). In Brain Fever, Hahn integrates the recent findings of science, ancient Japanese aesthetics and observations from her life as a woman, wife, mother, daughter and artist. Rooted in medita...

Kimiko Hahn's poetry explores the interplay-and tensions-among her various identities: mother, lover, wife, poet, and daughter of both the Midwest and Asia. However astonishing her subjects-from sideshow freaks to sadomasochistic fantasy-they ultimately emerge in this startling collection as moving images of the deepest levels of our shared humanity.

Mosquito and Ant refers to the style in which nu shu--a nearly extinct script used by Chinese women to correspond with one another--is written. Here in this exciting and totally original book of poems the narrator corresponds with L. about her hidden passions, her relationship with her husband and adolescent daughters, lost loves, and erotic fantasies. Kimiko Hahn's collection takes shape as a series of wide-ranging correspondences that are in...