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Today's poem is "The Dream of Parsnips"
from Brain Fever

W. W. Norton & Company

Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including, most recently, Toxic Flora. She has won an American Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Theodore Roethke Award, and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award. She lives in New York and teaches at Queens College, City University of New York.

Other poems by Kimiko Hahn in Verse Daily:
September 13, 2002:  "Like Lavrinia" "Like Lavrinia Merli, in 1890 in Mojola, Mantua..."

Books by Kimiko Hahn:

Other poems on the web by Kimiko Hahn:
Twelve poems
Three poems
"Sparrow"
"Cope’s Rule"
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
"The Railroad Worm"

Kimiko Hahn According to Wikipedia.

About Brain Fever:

"In Brain Fever, Kimiko Hahn moves through the rooms of the mind with an oneiric weightlessness. She also touches concrete ground in the realm of neuroscience, and in the world outside the mind, where love, betrayal, regret, and debilitating loss reside. This is a beautiful and troubling book, a marriage of what matters most: the mysteries buried at our very core and the world that cradles and cuts into us at every turn."
—Tracy K. Smith

"Darwin on flowers, Darwin on snails, dwarf stars, neurobiology, dolls from Occupied Japan, the weight of a raindrop, the indigo bunting’s love song…such a wide-ranging surface of interests! But the surface here always has its roots in love, in its many guises and perplexities…making Kimiko Hahn's Brain Fever not just a portrait of herself, but of herself set in a landscape as large as the world."
—Albert Goldbarth

"“Kimiko Hahn's stunning collection is marked by precision and sharp edges. Inspired by Japanese verse, astronomy, and neuroscience, she blends themes of nature and mind as well as everyday relations with her husband and daughters. Her report on dwarf stars, for example, slides into what her future mother-in-law said about her diminutive stature 'to dissuade him from marrying me.' Brain Fever is a delight to read."
—Renato Rosaldo



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