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The Ghost Forest
New and Selected Poems
Brief Description
Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer's artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the...
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“Borrowing from [such writers as] Elizabeth Bishop and Chimako Tada, featuring ghosts and geoglyphs, writing in form and free verse, Kimiko Hahn’s broad and eclectic approach reveals a mind as vast as the terrains it traverses.” — Poetry Magazine
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Description
Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer's artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments with traditional Western ones. Braided into the poems and narrative thread, a series of photos transforms the new-and-selected into a hybrid autobiography. This arresting collection derives new beauty from long-gone remnants.
A Riotous Disorder
She mistakes one word for another—
Something her brain naturally concocts.
Her unruly grey matter and her heart
Mistake one word for another—
Razor for river, cistern for sister.
Even cock for clock.
She mistakes one word for a mother—
A safe her brain naturally unlocks.—
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781324130673
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 July 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 26 illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 368
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About the Author
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.
Also by Kimiko Hahn
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