{"product_id":"book-launch-ghost-forest-by-kimiko-hahn","title":"Book Launch | Ghost Forest by Kimiko Hahn","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003ePre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Forest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments with traditional Western ones. Braided into the poems and narrative thread, a series of photos transforms the new-and-selected into a hybrid autobiography. This arresting collection derives new beauty from long-gone remnants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKimiko Hahn\u003c\/strong\u003e is author of eleven collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Forest: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (W.W. Norton, 2024) which plays with given forms while creating new ones, and, in doing so, honors past writers. Previous books \u003ci\u003eForeign Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eToxic Flora,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrain Fever\u003c\/i\u003e were prompted by fields of science; \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Road to the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e takes title and forms from Basho’s famous journals. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2023, Kimiko was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN\/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, American Book Award, and NEA Fellowships. In her service to the field, she enjoys promoting chapbooks and has created a chapbook archive at the Queens College Library. She will serve as New York State Poet from 2025-2027. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing \u0026amp; Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIN CONVERSATION WITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSally Wen Mao \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of the short story collection Ninetails: Nine Tales (Penguin, 2024). She is also the author of three collections of poetry, The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf 2023), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Prize, Oculus (Graywolf 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College-CUNY.\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yu \u0026 Me Books","offers":[{"title":"Book w\/Ticket","offer_id":67790730166501,"sku":"Kimiko Hahn Event 11.12.26","price":21.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"FREE RSVP","offer_id":67790730199269,"sku":"Kimiko Hahn Event 11.12.26","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/2581\/1941\/files\/11.12.26KimikoHahn.png?v=1792597152","url":"https:\/\/yuandmebooks.com\/products\/book-launch-ghost-forest-by-kimiko-hahn","provider":"Yu \u0026 Me Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}