Mosquito & ant
Subtitle: poems
By: Kimiko Hahn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Other titles: Mosquito and ant
Description: Mosquito & Ant refers to the style in which nu shu - a nearly extinct script used by Chinese women to correspond with one another - is written. In this book of poems, the narrator corresponds with L. about her hidden passions, her relationship with her husband and adolescent daughters, lost loves, and erotic fantasies.

Borrowing from both Japanese and Chinese traditions, Hahn offers us an authentic and complex narrator struggling with the sorrows and pleasures of being a woman against the backdrop of her Japanese-American roots.