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Brain Fever
Contributor(s): Hahn, Kimiko (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393243354     ISBN-13: 9780393243352
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $22.91  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 2014013659
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.67" W x 9.02" L (0.63 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/2014 pg. 100
 
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Publisher Description:
Acclaimed as one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB), Kimiko Hahn is a shape-shifter, a poet who seeks novel forms for her utterly original subject matter and stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion (Bloomsbury Review). In Brain Fever, Hahn integrates the recent findings of science, ancient Japanese aesthetics, and observations from her life as a woman, wife, mother, daughter, and artist.

Rooted in meditations on contemporary neuroscience, Brain Fever takes as its subject the mysteries of the human mind--the nature of dreams and memories, the possibly illusory nature of linear time, the complexity of conveying love to a child. In one poem, A Bowl of Spaghetti, she cites a comparison that researchers draw between unraveling the millions of miles of wires in the [human] brain and untangling a bowl of spaghetti, and thus she untangles a memory of her own: I have an old photo: Rei in her high chair intently / picking out each strand to mash in her mouth. // Was she two? Was that sailor dress from mother? / Did I cook that sauce from scratch? If so, there was a carrot in the pot.

Equally inspired by Sei Shonagon's tenth-century Pillow Book and the latest findings of cognitive research, Brain Fever is a thrilling blend of the timely and the timeless.

Contributor Bio(s): Hahn, Kimiko: - 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. President of the Poetry Society of America and a professor at Queens College CUNY, she lives in Queens.
 
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