Foreign Bodies: Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide with a lot of baggage

with a lot of baggage

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This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century

they see a better future

Adam Pendleton

Foreign Bodies: Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide with a lot of baggageA striking, shapeshifting volume from "one of the most fascinating female poets of our time (BOMB)." Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mtter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of curiosities, the collection provokes the same surprise, wonder, and pangs of recognition Hahn felt