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The Unbearable Heart
by Kimiko Hahn
Praise for The Unbearable Heart:
"Reading The Unbearable Heart you have the sense of someone tearing the past apart and rebuilding with naked, raw hands. The work is furious, flawed and absolutely necessary."
— Adrienne Rich
"It may sound odd to call a book of elegies exciting, but while reading The Unbearable Heart you'll find yourself catching your breath as much as you weep. If the poet's work is to find a way to speak the unutterable, take this book as your guide."
— Cornelius Eady
"Hahn's gaze is confident and immediate"
— Poetry Calendar
Awards:
Winner, American Book Award
Description:
A 1996 recipient of the American Book Award, The Unbearable Heart is a superbly composed yet passionate book of grief, mourning, and the overcoming of a mother's death. Creating ever-deepening cycles of feeling and insight, the poems range across a stunning variety of poetic landscapes and voices, from Murasaki's Genji to Roland Barthes' masculinist post-structuralism. Kimiko Hahn's use of innovative forms continues her explorations of Japanese folk and classical themes and poetics, while her magnificently imagined voice of Kuchuk Hanem, the Egyptian prostitute described/silenced in Flaubert's travelogues, bravely ventures into new areas of meaning suppressed by Orientalism about the Middle East.
Details:
$11.95 | 80pp | Paperback | ISBN 9781885030016