Picture Bride (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Cathy Song
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Nineteenth century, New York City, Art or artists, Marriage, Manners or customs, Immigration or emigration, Feminism, Women’s issues, Creative process, Grandparents or grandchildren, Painting or painters, Photography or photographers, Childbirth, Weddings, Asian Americans, Korea or Koreans
Form and Content
The content and form of this first book of poems reflect intimately the personal background and interests of its author. Therefore, many of these poems have their locations in Hawaii, where Cathy Song was born and reared, and the continental United States, where she attended university and married. Song is the daughter of a Korean American father and a Chinese American mother, and her poems are valuable repositories of an Asian American woman’s sensibilities experiencing the intricate varieties of familial and personal relationships—as daughter, wife,...
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