Earshot (book)

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Earshot is a book of poems by Kimiko Hahn, published in 1992 by Hanging Loose Press. It is Hahn's second poetry collection, after Air Pocket (1989). The book contains 46 poems. In 1993, Earshot received an Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award. [1] In 1995, it was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. [2]

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