Inspired by her encounter with Dr Chevalier Jackson's collection of
ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mutter 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 upon opening drawer after drawer of these
swallowed and retrieved, objects-a radiator key, a child's perfect
attendance pin, a mother-of-pearl button. The speaker of these
moving poems sees reflections of these items in the heartbreaking
detritus of her family home and in her long-dead mother's Japanese
jewellery. As Hahn remakes the lyric sequence in chains reminiscent
of the Japanese tanka, the foreign bodies of the title expand to
include the immigrant woman's trafficked body, fossilised remains,
a grandmother's Japanese body. She explores the relationship
between our innermost selves and the relics of our vanished past,
making room for meditation on grief and the ephemeral nature of the
material world, for the account of a nineteenth-century female
fossil hunter, and for a celebration of the nautilus. Foreign
Bodies investigates the power of possession, replete with Hahn's
electric originality and thrilling mastery of ever-changing forms.
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