The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems by Kimiko Hahn (Queens College, City University of New York)
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.