Toxic Flora

Toxic Flora: Poems is a 2010 poetry collection by Kimiko Hahn, published by W. W. Norton & Company.

[3][2] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly appreciated Hahn's strength of lyric derived from her juxtapositions of personal matters with scientific ones, to which the reviewer found that "Hahn's personal revelations ... dovetail so surprisingly with contemporary scientific observations".

The reviewer stated: "Seeing humanity and the self through the natural world is a common means of exploration for poets, but Hahn's frankness and the strange meat of these poems allows them to stand out as starkly fresh as the carnivorous plants she describes.

"[5] Wanling Su, for the Virginia Quarterly Review, said "Hahn extracts beauty from the specific, the scientific ...

In particular, Su observed Hahn's mastery of the "turn" as a means to shift a poem out from its more rational, scientific, objective context and toward a more emotional and humanistically grounded resolution.