{"id":7519,"date":"1997-03-01T16:45:49","date_gmt":"1997-03-01T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:49:59","slug":"picture-bride-by-cathy-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Picture<\/a>Cathy Song, 1982 winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets<\/a>, divides her debut collection into five sections, each named after flowers. Song draws inspiration from the works of 19th-century Japanese woodcut printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, modern American artist Georgia O\u2019Keefe, as well as detailed elements of the life that surrounds her. The title refers to Song\u2019s mother, who arrived in Hawai’i as a “picture bride,” which meant that the marriage was prearranged based solely on letters and an exchange of pictures between the bachelor in the U.S. and a potential bride in Asia. In “picture-bride” unions, the bride\u2019s arrival on U.S. shores to be collected by her husband, based on her picture, was the very first time that the already-married couple met. Some 30,000 Asian women entered the U.S. during the first three decades of the 20th-century as “picture brides.”<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"PictureCathy Song, 1982 winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets<\/a>, divides her debut collection into five sections, each named after flowers. Song draws inspiration from the works of 19th-century Japanese woodcut printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, modern American artist Georgia O\u2019Keefe, as well as detailed elements of the life that surrounds her.<\/p>\n

The title refers to Song\u2019s mother, who arrived in Hawai’i as a “picture bride,” which meant that the marriage was prearranged based solely on letters and an exchange of pictures between the bachelor in the U.S. and a potential bride in Asia. In “picture-bride” unions, the bride\u2019s arrival on U.S. shores to be collected by her husband, based on her picture, was the very first time that the already-married couple met. Some 30,000 Asian women entered the U.S. during the first three decades of the 20th-century as “picture brides.”<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,197,1794,38,94,6535,7933],"tags":[6608,5191,58,59,10,24,51,25,5260,4867],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese-american","category-hapa","category-hawaiian","category-korean-american","category-poetry","category-repost","category-verse-novel","tag-bookdragon","tag-cathy-song","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-picture-bride","tag-what-do-i-read-next-multicultural-literature"],"yoast_head":"\nPicture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Picture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cathy Song, 1982 winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets, divides her debut collection into five sections, each named after flowers. Song draws inspiration from the works of 19th-century Japanese woodcut printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, modern American artist Georgia O\u2019Keefe, as well as detailed elements of the life that surrounds her. The title refers to Song\u2019s mother, who arrived in Hawai'i as a "picture bride," which meant that the marriage was prearranged based solely on letters and an exchange of pictures between the bachelor in the U.S. and a potential bride in Asia. In "picture-bride" unions, the bride\u2019s arrival on U.S. shores to be collected by her husband, based on her picture, was the very first time that the already-married couple met. Some 30,000 Asian women entered the U.S. during the first three decades of the 20th-century as "picture brides." Review: "Asian American Titles," What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997 Readers: Adult Published: 1983\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1997-03-01T21:45:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-06-11T19:49:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Picture-Bride.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"421\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmithsonianAPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Picture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Picture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon","og_description":"Cathy Song, 1982 winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets, divides her debut collection into five sections, each named after flowers. Song draws inspiration from the works of 19th-century Japanese woodcut printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, modern American artist Georgia O\u2019Keefe, as well as detailed elements of the life that surrounds her. The title refers to Song\u2019s mother, who arrived in Hawai'i as a \"picture bride,\" which meant that the marriage was prearranged based solely on letters and an exchange of pictures between the bachelor in the U.S. and a potential bride in Asia. In \"picture-bride\" unions, the bride\u2019s arrival on U.S. shores to be collected by her husband, based on her picture, was the very first time that the already-married couple met. Some 30,000 Asian women entered the U.S. during the first three decades of the 20th-century as \"picture brides.\" Review: \"Asian American Titles,\" What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997 Readers: Adult Published: 1983","og_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/","og_site_name":"BookDragon","article_published_time":"1997-03-01T21:45:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-06-11T19:49:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":421,"height":650,"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Picture-Bride.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmithsonianAPA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/","name":"Picture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] - BookDragon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website"},"datePublished":"1997-03-01T21:45:49+00:00","dateModified":"2018-06-11T19:49:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/picture-bride-by-cathy-song\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Picture Bride by Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/","name":"BookDragon","description":"Books for the Diverse Reader","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d","name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SmithsonianAPA"],"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38741,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/38741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}