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Review "In this book, Kimiko Hahn manages to take the air of atrocity we breathe in daily and turn it into fierce political/lyrical poetry. ... She is one of our strongest poets." -- Harvey Shapiro"This collection affirms [Hahn's] well-placed position in poetry and is destined to enrich the art with its power, pereption and language." -- Peter Ong, Director of The Asian American Writer's WorkshopAnother Use For Ice Blindsided The Box Of White Buttons The City Architect The Daughters And The Crow The Details We Fall For The Early 70s Errands Everest Found The Glass Bracelets The Heartbeat Of Humidity If You Speak Lice Lili, 1933 Mine Mother's Mother Possession: A Zuihitsu 'a Radical New View Of The Role Of Menstruation' The Shower A Small Portrait The Sunflower These Current Events The Variable Field The Volcano's Desire West 1-0-5 -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Read more About the Author Kimiko Hahn is the author of AIR POCKET; EARSHOT, awarded The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; THE UNBEARABLE HEART (Kaya, 1996) which received an American Book Award; and MOSQUITO AND ANT (W. W. Norton, forthcoming 1999); and is currently collecting her short prose for AFTERBIRTH. Recent poetry can be found in KENYON REVIEW, MANOA, ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE, and BEST AMERICAN POETRY of 1996 (Scribners); her prose, in BOMB, THE GLOBAL REVIEW, TRIQUARTERLY REVIEW and the anthology CHARLIE CHAN IS DEAD (Penguin). In 1995, she wrote ten "portraits" of women for the two-hour HBO special "Ain't Nuthin' But A She-thing" for which she also did voice-overs; it aired in November of that year. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she has also been awarded a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award. Hahn is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Queens College/CUNY. Read more