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    Homecoming

    New and Collected Poems

    Author Julia Alvarez
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Plume
    On sale Apr 01, 1996 | 128 Pages | 9780452275676
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    Homecoming is Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. 

    Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. These more recent writings are still deeply autobiographical in nature, but written with the edgier, more knowing tone of a woman who has seen, and survived, more of life. Wonderfully lucid and engaging, toned with deep emotionality and a wry observation of life, the poems of Julia Alvarez stand next to her fiction to both delight us and give us lessons in living and loving.
    HomecomingHomecoming

    Housekeeping
    How I Learned to Sweep
    Dusting
    Household Riddle
    Making Our Beds
    The Master Bed
    Washing the Windows
    Storm Windows
    Hairwashing
    Hanging the Wash
    Folding My Clothes
    Ironing Their Clothes
    Rolling Dough
    What Could It Be?
    Posture Lesson
    New Clothes
    Naming the Fabrics
    Orchids
    Charges
    Mother Love
    Woman's Work

    Heroines
    Heroines
    Woman Friend
    Wallpaper
    Against Cinderella
    Old Heroines

    33

    Redwing Sonnets

    Last Night at Tía's

    Afterword: Coming Home to Homecoming

    © Bill Eichner
    Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Yo!. She has also published two poetry collections (Homecoming and The Other side/El Otro Lado) and a collection of essays (Something to Declare).

    Julia Álvarez es la autora de De cómo las chicas García perdieron el acento, En el tiempo de las mariposas (un finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award) y ¡Yo!. También ha publicado dos colecciones de poesía y una colección de ensayos. Julia Álvarez vive en Vermont y en República Dominicana, donde dirige una cooperativa de café orgánico, y un centro de alfabetización y arte con su esposo. View titles by Julia Alvarez

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    Homecoming is Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. 

    Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. These more recent writings are still deeply autobiographical in nature, but written with the edgier, more knowing tone of a woman who has seen, and survived, more of life. Wonderfully lucid and engaging, toned with deep emotionality and a wry observation of life, the poems of Julia Alvarez stand next to her fiction to both delight us and give us lessons in living and loving.

    Table of Contents

    HomecomingHomecoming

    Housekeeping
    How I Learned to Sweep
    Dusting
    Household Riddle
    Making Our Beds
    The Master Bed
    Washing the Windows
    Storm Windows
    Hairwashing
    Hanging the Wash
    Folding My Clothes
    Ironing Their Clothes
    Rolling Dough
    What Could It Be?
    Posture Lesson
    New Clothes
    Naming the Fabrics
    Orchids
    Charges
    Mother Love
    Woman's Work

    Heroines
    Heroines
    Woman Friend
    Wallpaper
    Against Cinderella
    Old Heroines

    33

    Redwing Sonnets

    Last Night at Tía's

    Afterword: Coming Home to Homecoming

    Author

    © Bill Eichner
    Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Yo!. She has also published two poetry collections (Homecoming and The Other side/El Otro Lado) and a collection of essays (Something to Declare).

    Julia Álvarez es la autora de De cómo las chicas García perdieron el acento, En el tiempo de las mariposas (un finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award) y ¡Yo!. También ha publicado dos colecciones de poesía y una colección de ensayos. Julia Álvarez vive en Vermont y en República Dominicana, donde dirige una cooperativa de café orgánico, y un centro de alfabetización y arte con su esposo. View titles by Julia Alvarez

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