The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems by Kimiko Hahn

The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems

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The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems by Kimiko Hahn

W. W. Norton & Company

The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems

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Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer's artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring 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.

A Riotous Disorder
She mistakes one word for another--
Something her brain naturally concocts.
Her unruly gray matter and her heart
Mistake one word for an other--
Razor for river, cistern for sister.
Even cock for clock.
She mistakes one word for a mother--
A safe her brain naturally unlocks.--

Book Details
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9781324130673
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
368
Authors:
Kimiko Hahn
Published Date:
2026-07-21
Language:
English
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About Kimiko Hahn

Kimiko Hahn holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MA in Japanese literature from Columbia University. Born in Mount Kisco, New York, to a mother from Hawai'i and a father from Wisconsin — both of them artists — she grew up in Pleasantville. The Unbearable Heart won an American Book Award and Earshot the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize; the Poetry Foundation gave her the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2023. The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems came from W. W. Norton in 2024. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2023 and named New York State Poet in 2025.

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