Norton, paperback
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
Publisher Marketing: 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.