Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
I will speak briefly about the influence of East Asian aesthetics and texts on my own work, then read relevant pieces my new manuscript, The Narrow Road to the Interior (title inspired by the poet, Basho). Specifically, I will talk about The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu and the Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon; and aesthetics stemming from the classical Japanese forms, tanka and zuihitsu.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including her forthcoming The Artist's Daughter (W.W.Norton) and Earshot, which received an American Book Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently, The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Hahn is a professor in the English Dept at Queens College/ CUNY.