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.
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.
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
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Redwing Sonnets
Last Night at Tía's
Afterword: Coming Home to Homecoming
Show moreHomecoming 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.
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.
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
Show moreHomecomingHomecoming
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
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.
Praise for En el tiempo de las mariposas
“Un libro importante… emocionalmente sobrecogedor. Alvarez nos hace
un regalo cargado de rara generosidad y coraje.”—The San Diego
Union-Tribune
“Un regalo de amor sinfónico y espléndido… un magnífico tesoro para
todas las culturas y todos los tiempos… una novela que celebra la
corriente de vida que fluye entre las mujeres, conectándolas y
dándolas coraje para luchar por la justicia y la resistencia, y
corazones para amar y perdonar libremente… Julia Alvarez es una
escritora asombrosa.”—St. Petersburg Times
“Maravilloso… una narración enriquecedora… entrelaza hábilmente la
realidad y la ficción hasta alcanzar un sobrecogedor
clímax.”—Newsweek
“Una novela con un tremendo poder… un libro bello y valiente.”—West
Coast Review of Books
Praise for Once Upon a Quinceañera
“Phenomenal… indispensable. Alvarez’s novelistic eye makes Once
Upon a Quinceañera an intimate, intoxicating read.”—San Francisco
Chronicle
“A journey into experiencing a vital, exuberant ritual of modern
Latino life… As an author, Alvarez is a terrific tour guide.”—The
Seattle Times
“[Alvarez] brings a critical eye to long-held myths… Each page is a
love song to the cultural ties that bind generations of women from
a diverse group of countries.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Fascinating, exhaustively researched.”—The Washington Post
“Alvarez’s honest grappling with her caught-between-two-cultures
experience is compelling.”—Entertainment Weekly
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