Works by
Kimiko Hahn
(Poet)
[1955 - ]

Poetry

• Toxic Flora: Poems (May 3, 2010 release)

• The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems (2006)
  Kimiko Hahn 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.

• The Artist's Daughter: Poems (2002)
  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: Poems (1999)
  This breakthrough volume by award-winning poet Kimiko Hahn is her most rigorously "female" work to date as she reclaims the female body and reinvents an ancient Chinese correspondence. 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 turn precocious and wise, angry and wistful. Borrowing from both Japanese and Chinese traditions, Hahn offers us an authentic and complex narrator struggling with the sorrows and pleasures of being a woman against the backdrop of her Japanese-American roots.

• Volatile (1999)

• The Unbearable Heart (1995)
  Poetry centered on the death of Kimiko Hahn's mother.

• Earshot (1992)

• Air Pocket (1989)

Other

• We Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems (1988) with Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman

See also:

• Biography - Kimiko Hahn (2007)
  An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team,
  Digital - HTML

• Kimiko Hahn's "Pine": A Study Guide from Gale's "Poetry for Students" (Volume 23, Chapter 13, 2005)
  Digital - PDF