School Figures (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Cathy Song
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Marriage, Chinese Americans, Old age or elderly people, Birthparents
Inspired by a line in the title poem of the book, the publisher’s advertisement characterizes School Figures as a collection of “poems like an ice skater’s school figures—the pen moving silently and deliberately across a white expanse of paper, tracing memory and experience, bringing pressure to bear upon the blade of language to unlock ‘the invisible fire beneath the ice.’” The blurb is not inaccurate insofar as it highlights the understated intensity of memory and experience frequently found in Cathy Song’s poetry. To readers familiar with her two previous...
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