| Brain Fever: Poems Contributor(s): Hahn, Kimiko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393354407 ISBN-13: 9780393354409 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.40 lbs) 138 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |