Kimiko Hahn

Mosquito & Ant

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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 wo… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-32062-6
EAN: 9780393320626
Produktnummer: 9349926
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 102 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.1 cm 145 g
Gewicht: 145

Über den Autor

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten collections of poems. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Voelcker Award, and a Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation, Queens College, City University of New York, and lives in Queens.