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 ...
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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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Add this copy of Picture Bride (the Yale Series of Younger Poets) to cart. $39.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Yale University Press.
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Near Fine in Near fine jacket. First printing, 1983, hardcover with red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 85pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to spine ends, binding tight, mild scuff to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear, rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap.
Add this copy of Picture Bride: the Yale Series of Younger Poets to cart. $52.00, very good condition, Sold by Grey Matter Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hadley, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Yale University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed and inscribed by Cathy Song on the title page. First edition, first printing. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the top edge of the pages is lightly foxed. Previous owner's inscription on the second free end page. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows some light edge wear, mostly around the corners and at the head and base of the spine.
Add this copy of Picture Bride: the Yale Series of Younger Poets to cart. $46.10, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Yale Univ Pr.
