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This title in other formats:The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poemsby Kimiko Hahn
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An expansive new work from a poet of "rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability" (Mark Doty).
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. Review:"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 American aims. The notebook form allows room for scenes in Brooklyn and on Cape Cod; the poet's feelings about her preteen daughter and her former husband; her thoughts on academia and on Asian-Americanness; her experience of her own body, in youth, in sex and in middle age; and her reactions to 9/11. Honesty has long stood among Hahn's strengths: 'I want hands on my face the way no husband or woman has ever held me.' Childhood recollections are also movingly evoked: 'I need not write about those snow forts where I lay on my back looking up at the ceiling turning into twilight, my mother calling from the trite threshold.' Hahn's self-consciousness about this cross-cultural form — a recurring theme — can become self-indulgent, and the development comes not from a change in Hahn, but from the terrorist attack on her city. No revelation emerges at notebook's end. And yet her individual musings retain their force, even in a form Hahn (The Artist's Daughter, 2004) calls 'a kind of fragmented anything.' (July)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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