Mosquito & Ant Contributor(s): Hahn, Kimiko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393320626 ISBN-13: 9780393320626 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2000 Annotation: 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. Kimiko Hahn's collection takes shape as a series of wide-ranging correspondences that are in turn precocious and wise, angry and wistful. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 98041003 |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.55" W x 8.21" L (0.32 lbs) 104 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: 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 woman against the backdrop of her Japanese-American roots. |
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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