Narrow Road To The Interior Cl
by Hahn,KimikoEdition: 00
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-07-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
Kimiko Hahn, "a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" ( Bloomsbury Review ), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu literally "running brush," which utilizes tactics such as juxtaposition, contradiction, and broad topical variety in exploring her various identities as mother and lover, wife and poet, daughter of varied traditions.
Author Biography
Kimiko Hahn teaches at Queens College, City University of New York.
Table of Contents
| Compass (an introduction) | p. 3 |
| Utica Station | p. 5 |
| Opening Her Text | p. 9 |
| Cuts from the Zuihitsu on My Daughter | p. 15 |
| Wellfleet, Midsummer (tanka) | p. 17 |
| Radio and Mirror (on Woman in the Dunes) | p. 20 |
| Wellfleet, Midsummer (tanka) | p. 24 |
| Sparrow | p. 26 |
| Cranberry Island, Late Summer (tanka) | p. 33 |
| Gowanus, Late Summer (tanka) | p. 36 |
| The Tunnel (on Snow Country) | p. 38 |
| Brooklyn, Late Winter (tanka) | p. 44 |
| Brooklyn, Early Summer | p. 45 |
| Pulse and Impulse | p. 47 |
| Great Barrington, Spring to Summer (tanka) | p. 52 |
| Blunt Instrument | p. 55 |
| Wellfleet, Late Summer (tanka) | p. 62 |
| Boerum Hill, Late Summer (tanka) | p. 64 |
| The Orient | p. 65 |
| Boerum Hill, September (tanka) | p. 72 |
| Trading Words | p. 74 |
| B-O-A-T | p. 78 |
| Starting a Zuihitsu on Eyebrows and Discovering Cocoon | p. 82 |
| Boerum Hill, March (tanka) | p. 84 |
| Firsts in No Particular Order | p. 86 |
| Things That Make Me Cry Instantly | p. 88 |
| Things That Are Full of Pleasure | p. 89 |
| Asian American Lit. Final | p. 90 |
| Boerum Hill, Late Summer (tanka) | p. 94 |
| Shelling | p. 95 |
| Conspiring with Shikishi (tanka) | p. 102 |
| Notes | p. 107 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 109 |
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