Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn
Reading Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
- Welcome and Introduction
- Opening Remarks
- "On Deceit as Survival"
- "Nowadays when friends read about Darwin..."
- "Awareness"
- "The Blob"
- "The Sweetwater Caverns"
- "Was the coital cannibalism..."
- "The Dream of a Little Occupied Japan Doll"
- "The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon"
- "The Dream of a Raindrop"
- "Alarm"
- "Porch Light"
- "A Bowl of Spaghetti"
- "Cherry Stems"
- Question and Answer Session
- "Cope's Rule"
Welcome and Introduction-25422
by Hannah Ensor
Opening Remarks-25424
Kimiko Hahn speaks about the process of composing and revising poems inspired by the "Science" section of The New York TImes.
"On Deceit as Survival"-25426
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
"Nowadays when friends read about Darwin..."-25428
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
"Awareness"-25430
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
"The Blob"-25432
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
"The Sweetwater Caverns"-25434
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
"Was the coital cannibalism..."-25436
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
"The Dream of a Little Occupied Japan Doll"-25438
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon"-25440
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"The Dream of a Raindrop"-25442
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"Alarm"-25444
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"Porch Light"-25446
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"A Bowl of Spaghetti"-25448
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
"Cherry Stems"-25450
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Question and Answer Session-25452
"Cope's Rule"-25454
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Hahn, Kimiko. Toxic Flora. New York: W. W. Norton & Compan, 2010.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Africana Studies Department, UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, UA Department of East Asian Studies, UA Poetry Center, UA Program in Medical Humanities
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Kimiko Hahn reads from Toxic Flora (2010) and Brain Fever (2014). This reading was given as part of the Spectacular Poetics Series.

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