{"product_id":"foreign-bodies-kimiko-hahn-9781324005216","title":"Foreign Bodies: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's M?ter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same surprise, wonder, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt upon opening drawer after drawer of these swallowed, and retrieved, objects--a radiator key, a child's perfect attendance pin, a mother-of-pearl button. The speaker of these moving poems sees reflections of these items in the heartbreaking detritus of her family home, and in her long-dead mother's Japanese jewelry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Hahn remakes the lyric sequence in chains reminiscent of the Japanese \u003cem\u003etanka\u003c\/em\u003e, the foreign bodies of the title expand to include the immigrant woman's trafficked body, fossilized remains, a grandmother's Japanese body. She explores the relationship between our innermost selves and the relics of our vanished past, making room for meditation on grief and the ephemeral nature of the material world, for the account of a nineteenth-century female fossil hunter, and for a celebration of the nautilus. \u003cem\u003eForeign Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the power of possession, replete with Hahn's electric originality and thrilling mastery of ever-changing forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kimiko Hahn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324005211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324005216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/20\/2020 pg. 41","brand":"Kimiko Hahn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44048359162111,"sku":"9781324005216","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a8f1418-b033-444d-befc-3f301a53280b.jpg?v=1684995341","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreign-bodies-kimiko-hahn-9781324005216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}