Kimiko Hahn

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Jena Osman by Mónica de la Torre

Dec 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Kimiko Hahn

Jena Osman’s most recent book of selected poems, A Very Large Array (2023), is a compendium of her superlative experimental works of documentary poetry, which she treats with procedural or constraint-based methods that bring liveliness, unpredictability, and subtle dark irony to the page.
Boerum Hill, settembre 2001

Oct 10, 2024 | internazionale.it | Kimiko Hahn

Dove un tempo vendevo cravatte di seta ai broker adesso il pavimento è un obitorio improvvisato con in fila i carbonizzati e gli andati in pezzi. Questo è fin dove io faccio andare l’immaginazione. Kimiko Hahn è una poeta statunitense nata nel 1955. Insegna letteratura e scrittura creativa al Queens college, City university of New York. Questo testo è tratto dalla raccolta The narrow road to the interior (W.W. Norton & Company 2006). Traduzione dall’inglese di Elisa Biagini.
Kyong Boon Oh and Walking the Path

Sep 26, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Kimiko Hahn |Ladan Osman

Audio of Oh chanting in tongues, which is part of her process when working with wire and stone: https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/0.Kyong-Boon-Oh-for-Offing.mp3◆I had set out on my way to find a waterfall. I had walked and walked through the desert. And suddenly I realized that I forgot why I had searched for the waterfall. Then even I forgot the fact that I had searched for the waterfall. Only walking itself remained.
Kimiko Hahn Shares Two Poems from The Ghost Forest

Sep 15, 2024 | themarkaz.org | Kimiko Hahn

Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments with traditional Western ones.
Ladan Osman's Halos in Harlem

Jun 10, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Ladan Osman |Kimiko Hahn

For this installment of The Offing FEATURES, we invited multi-hyphenate artist and former contributing editor Ladan Osman to share the process behind her photography. Here are her reflections on meeting Ashley, Michael, and Candace — portrait subjects in Osman’s series Halos in Harlem — through a 35mm lens. (We encourage you to click on each image for an expanded view.)◆Years ago, I’d look through photobooks and think: great composition, beautiful work in the darkroom, wow what a scene.
The Dream of a Lacquer Box

May 31, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Kimiko Hahn

I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contentsJapanese —like hairpins made of tortoiseshell or bonethough my braid was lopped off long ago,like an overpowering pine incenseor a talisman from a Kyoto shrine,like a Hello Kitty diary-lock-and-key,Hello Kitty stickers or candies,a netsuke in the shape of an octopus,ticket stubs from the Bunraku —or am I wishing for Mother? searching for Sister? just hoping to give something Japanese to my daughters?
BOMB Magazine | We Loved It All

Dec 15, 2023 | bombmagazine.org | Lydia Millet |Anuj Shrestha |Kimiko Hahn

In the beginning we gave names to every creature that we found—the creeping things, the swimming things, the ones that walked and climbed and flew. We gave them names, some say, so we might better know them. Home was a garden, then—a garden in the wild. Green forests stretched up the feet of mountains, and clear rivers ran from ice-blue glaciers to the sea.
Anaphora Using Wilfred Owen’s Line “If you could…

Oct 30, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Kimiko Hahn

If you could hear, at every jolt, the building quiver— If you could hear fossils stirring— If you could hear sand from the fathoms rise— If you could hear calf thrum to whale— If you could hear dogs stand still as a deer before bounding— If you could hear bounding— If you could hear a neighbor shout to her daughter—stand in the door— If you could stand— If you could hear what’s not a fault—and is a fault— You’d hear the earth sounding war—
Elizabeth’s Cabeza

Oct 11, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Kimiko Hahn

But how could Arthur go, clutching his tiny lily, with his eyes shut up so tight and the roads deep in snow? I don’t know how Arthur could go with just a lily, no parka or boots. Elizabeth’s question would follow over the years, even after she’d left Nova Scotia for agreeable climes below the equator. Yes, I wish to know But how could Arthur go?
Kimiko Hahn: Selections

Oct 9, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Kimiko Hahn

[Jump to poems by publication year: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s] I click the pieces into sharp arrangements — grouse, crow, craven — no, now, my own daughter turns sovereign —Kimiko Hahn, Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn (1955–present) is the author of ten books of poetry, including Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020), Brain Fever (Norton, 2014), Toxic Flora (Norton, 2010), The Narrow Road to the Interior (Norton, 2006), The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), and Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992).