Girl Powdering Her Neck (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cathy Song
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Girls, Art or artists, Asia or Asians, Asian Americans, Japan or Japanese people, Japanese Americans
The Poem
“Girl Powdering Her Neck” is a free-verse lyric poem written in short lines of varying length divided into seven stanzas, also of varying lengths. The title and descriptive subtitle (“from a ukiyo-e print by Utamaro”) refer to the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), the best known of many Japanese printmakers working in the ukiyo-e tradition who produced sensitive studies of a privileged class of highly cultivated and well-respected courtesans (among other subjects). The Japanese word ukiyo-e, commonly translated as “pictures of the floating...
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