Stamp Collecting (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cathy Song
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
Cathy Song’s “Stamp Collecting” is a lyric of three unequal stanzas. Its easy flowing and conversationally cadenced verse lines muse in a whimsical and wittily urbane tone of voice on postage stamps and what stamps can reveal about the countries that issue them. Ostensibly about the hobby of stamp collecting, the poem is also about geopolitics.
The opening stanza of the poem begins with the commonplace observation that many of the least wealthy nations issue the most eye-catching of postage stamps. These countries tend to produce commodities of trifling...
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