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'Notice that the simplest often yields the most,' writes Kimiko Hahn in her electric tenth collection. In Hahn's hands, the smallest of relics become powerful portals through time, space, and memory. With expert lyric sensibility and all the anguish of daughterhood, Foreign Bodies reminds us of the necessity of poetry as a spell for intimacy. It's a spell that offers hope of the most urgent kind: the hope of closing the gap between 'my other's body' and 'my mother's body,' between ourselves and all that we can't reach. -- Franny Choi, author of Soft Science Kimiko Hahn writes with a particular brightness of mind like no one else-or maybe with just enough kinship to Marianne Moore and their shared weirdness to mention it here, their glorious fascination with the particular-peculiars of nature and human behavior...Where another poet, doing such inexhaustible research, would eventually clean up her act, Kimiko Hahn in Foreign Bodies makes as much art out of documentary evidence and 'sparkly' research as she does elegance, memory, or lyrical compression. -- David Baker, author of Swift 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

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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.

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