Picture bride
by Song, Cathy
The winning volume in the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Cathy Song's Picture Bride, a book about people and their innumerable journeys. Distinguished poet Richard Hugo says, "Cathy Song's poems are flowers: colorful, sensual, and quiet, and they are offered almost shyly as bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but in retrospect count the most. She often reminds a loud, indifferent, hard world of what truly matters to the human spirit."Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, i…
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- Full title :Picture bride. / Cathy Song, forward by Richard Hugo
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The winning volume in the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Cathy Song's Picture Bride, a book about people and their innumerable journeys. Distinguished poet Richard Hugo says, "Cathy Song's poems are flowers: colorful, sensual, and quiet, and they are offered almost shyly as bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but in retrospect count the most. She often reminds a loud, indifferent, hard world of what truly matters to the human spirit."Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1955, Cathy Song received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1977 and an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University in 1981. Her poems have appeared in an anthology of asian-pacific literature and in Dark Horse, The Greenfield Review, and West Branch
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- Publication Date:1983.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1983.
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Volume 78 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
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- Description:1 online resource (85 pages)
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- ISBN:9780300161960, 0300161964, 0300029594, 9780300029598, 0300029691, 9780300029697
- oclc:ocn319684955
- LC Classification:PS325
- Dewey Decimal:811/.54
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