The Narrow Road to the Interior

An expansive work inspired by Japanese prose-poetry from a poet of "rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability" (Mark Doty).

Kimiko Hahn, "a welcome voice of experimentation and passion" (Bloomsbury Review), takes up the Japanese prose-poetry genre zuihitsu-literally "running brush," which utilizes tactics such as juxtaposition, contradiction, and broad topical variety-in exploring her various identities as mother and lover, wife and poet, daughter of varied traditions.