Details e-Book Foreign Bodies: Poems
đ¸ Author(s): Kimiko Hahn
đ¸ Title: Foreign Bodies: Poems
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A striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)." Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jacksonâs collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphiaâs MĂźtter Museum, Kimiko Hahnâs tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same surprise, wonder, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt upon opening drawer after drawer of these swallowed, and retrieved, objectsâa radiator key, a childâs perfect attendance pin, a mother-of-pearl button. The speaker of these moving poems sees reflections of these items in the heartbreaking detritus of her family home, and in her long-dead motherâs Japanese jewelry. As Hahn remakes the lyric sequence in chains reminiscent of the Japanese tanka, the foreign bodies of the title expand to include the immigrant womanâs trafficked body, fossilized remains, a grandmotherâs Japanese body. She explores the relationship between our innermost selves and the relics of our vanished past, making room for meditation on grief and the ephemeral nature of the material world, for the account of a nineteenth-century female fossil hunter, and for a celebration of the nautilus. Foreign Bodies investigates the power of possession, replete with Hahnâs electric originality and thrilling mastery of ever-changing forms.
