Toxic Flora
Poems
Published on 16. December 2013
128 pages
978-0-393-07921-0 (ISBN)
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"[Kimiko] Hahn's frankness . . . allows [these poems] to stand out as starkly fresh as the carnivorous plants she describes.”—American Poet
For Kimiko Hahn, the language and imagery of science open up magical possibilities for the poet. In her haunting eighth collection inspired by articles from the weekly "Science” section of the New York Times, Hahn explores identity, extinction, and survival using exotic tropes drawn from the realms of astrophysics, mycology, paleobotany, and other rarefied fields. With warmth and generosity, Hahn mines the world of science in these elegant, ardent poems. from "On Deceit as Survival” Yet another species resembles a female bumble bee, ending in frustrated trysts— or appears to be two fractious males which also attracts—no surprise— a third curious enough to join the fray. What to make of highly evolved Beauty bent on deception as survival—More details
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Kimiko Hahn, the poet laureate of New York, has written more than ten poetry collections. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, among other awards. Hahn teaches at Queens College, City University of New York, and lives in New York.
