11/28/2014

He enjoys honking trucks and kids’ vulgar shouting beneath our window—it reminds him of his childhood. And, me, of leaving childhood.

BIO:

Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including, most recently, Brain Fever (W.W. Norton, 2014). She has won an American Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Theodore Roethke Award, and Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. She lives in New York and teaches at Queens College, City University of New York.
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