Description: A striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)."
Brief description: Kimiko Hahn, the poet laureate of New York, has written more than ten poetry collections. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, among other awards. Hahn teaches at Queens College, City University of New York, and lives in New York.
Review Quotes: Kimiko Hahn's structurally and formally complex new book, Foreign Bodies, is a long, rich meditation on detail. It is a masterpiece of scale. Just as the cellular biologist works backward from a single cell under an electron microscope to the full organism, so Hahn works from the minute, ephemeral stuff left from a life (a loose thread, a single hair, an open safety pin) back to the overarching themes of memory, death, love, and sorrow. The book is a series of elegies of the most original and surprising sort. A quite miraculous performance.--Lynn Emanuel, author of The Nerve of It