Picture Bride

Cathy Song's Picture Bride has been selected as the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The late Richard Hugo, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, said of these poems: 'Cathy Song's poems are flowers: colorful, sensual, and quiet, and they are offered almost as 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.'

Foreword

ix

I Black Iris

Picture Bride

3

(2)

The Youngest Daughter

5

(2)

Easter: Wahiawa, 1959

7

(3)

Waialua

10

(2)

Blue Lantern

12

(2)

Leaving

14

(2)

For My Brother

16

(2)

Birthmarks

18

(5)

II Sunflower

The White Porch

23

(2)

Seed

25

(1)

Stray Animals

26

(2)

Primary Colors

28

(2)

Hoolehua

30

(1)

Tribe

31

(2)

Father and Daughter

33

(4)

III Orchids

Beauty and Sadness

37

(2)

Girl Powdering Her Neck

39

(2)

Ikebana

41

(2)

Blue and White Lines after O'Keeffe

43

(8)

IV Red Poppy

Lost Sister

51

(3)

Spaces We Leave Empty

54

(1)

A Dream of Small Children

55

(2)

The Violin Teacher

57

(2)

Untouched Photograph of Passenger

59

(2)

Chinatown

61

(4)

For A.J.: On Finding She's on Her Boat to China

65

(4)

V The White Trumpet Flower

Hotel Geneve

69

(3)

From the White Place

72

(3)

A Pale Arrangement of Hands

75

(3)

January

78

(1)

The Seamstress

79

(4)

Glossary

83

(2)

Acknowledgments

85

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