Kimiko Hahn

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Kimiko Hahn
Hahn at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	1955 Mount Kisco, New York
Nationality	USA
Genres	poetry
Notable award(s)	American Book Award Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize

Kimiko Hahn (born in 1955 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American poet and instructor of poetry.

Contents 1 Personal 2 Bibliography 3 Awards 4 Poems on line 5 Notes 6 See also 7 References 8 Critical Studies

[edit] Personal

Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University.

She has taught at the Asian American Writers Workshop and is a Distinguished Professor in the M.F.A. program at Queens College, City University of New York^[1].

Hahn is also the 2008 winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.

[edit] Bibliography

• Air Pocket. Hanging Loose Press, 1989. ISBN 091461052X ISBN 978-0914610526
• Earshot. Hanging Loose Press, 1992. ISBN 0914610848 ISBN 978-0914610847
• The Unbearable Heart. Kaya Press, 1995. ISBN 1885030010 ISBN 978-1885030016
• Volatile. Hanging Loose Press, 1999. ISBN 1882413571 ISBN 978-1882413577
• Mosquito and Ant: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 0393047326 ISBN 978-0393047325
• The Artist's Daughter: Poems New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0393051021 ISBN 978-0393051025
• The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0393061892 ISBN 978-0393061895

With Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman

• We Stand Our Ground: : Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems. Ikon, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0945368011 ISBN 978-0945368014

[edit] Awards

She has received an American Book Award, an Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and a Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize.

[edit] Poems on line

• "The Closet" http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7434
• "IN CHILDHOOD" http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/98_99/hahn.html
• "Like Lavrinia" http://www.versedaily.org/likelavrinia.shtml
• "The Line" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i3/t/hahn1.html
• "The Breast's Syllabics" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i3/t/hahn2.html
• "becoming the mother" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i3/t/hahn3.html

[edit] Notes

1. ^ CUNY Queens College English Department - Kimiko Hahn

[edit] See also

• List of Asian American writers

[edit] References

• Yamammoto, Traise, Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body. 1999
• Short biography http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/98_99/hahnbio.html\
• Heath Anthology author site http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/hahn_ki.html
• Interview http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/interviews/aap/hahn_kimiko.html
• Kimiko Hahn in conversation with Emily Moore at Loggernaut. Fall 2006.

[edit] Critical Studies

1. Kimiko Hahn's 'Interlingual Poetics' in Mosquito and Ant By: Grotjohn, Robert. pp. 219-34 IN: Lim, Shirley Geok-lin (ed.); Gamber, John Blair (ed.); Sohn, Stephen Hong (ed.); Valentino, Gina (ed.); Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP; 2006. viii, 306 pp. (book article)
2. Two Hat Softeners 'In the Trade Confession': John Yau and Kimiko Hahn By: Zhou, Xiaojing. pp. 168-89 IN: Zhou, Xiaojing (ed. and introd.); Najmi, Samina (ed.); Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature. Seattle, WA: U of Washington P; 2005. 296 pp. (book article)
3. 'I Cannot Find Her': The Oriental Feminine, Racial Melancholia, and Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart By: Chang, Juliana; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2004; 4 (2): 239-60. (journal article)
4. Mixing Aesthetics. A Poet's Cityscape: Kimiko Hahn By: Schlote, Christiane. pp. 541-59 IN: Alonso Gallo, Laura P. (ed. and introd.); Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja; 2004. 730 pp. (book article)
5. Pulse and Impulse: The Zuihitsu By: Hahn, Kimiko. pp. 75-82 IN: Dienstfrey, Patricia (ed.); Hillman, Brenda (ed.); DuPlessis, Rachel Blau (foreword); The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP; 2003. xxvi, 278 pp. (book article)
6. Luce Irigaray's Choreography with Sex and Race By: Mori, Kaori; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002 July; 63 (1): 189. State U of New York, Buffalo, 2002. (dissertation abstract)
7. To Adore a Fragment: An Interview with Kimiko Hahn By: Kalamaras, George; Bloomsbury Review, 1999 Mar-Apr; 19 (2): 13-14. (journal article)
8. Breaking from Tradition: Experimental Poems by Four Contemporary Asian American Women Poets By: Xiaojing, Zhou; Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Nov; 37: 199-218. (journal article)

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