Foreign Bodies: Poems

"There are so many things we hold on to: relics, memories, grief – all tied to the body. In her 10th poetry collection, Kimiko Hahn was inspired by a collection of ingested and retrieved objects at a museum in Philadelphia, and she uses the foreign bodies of the material world to intimately excavate human behavior. As she explains at the end of the book, she embodies Japanese poetics and leans into ambiguity. So if you have to read the poems more than once to really touch upon the depth of your feelings, you’re doing it right."