(1) Summarize shifting and intertwined relationships in Song’s “Picture Bride.” Enlarge on the images of blended cultures with comparisons to marriages described in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Michael Dorris, and Amy Tan.
(2) Characterize Song’s female personae in “The Youngest Daughter,” “Lost Sister,” “Blue Lantern,” “Waialua,” “China Town,” “The White Porch,” and “The Seamstress.”
(3) Discuss how Song’s poems express Audre Lorde’s concept of poetic voyaging to inner sources.
