| Description |
120 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A different version of Homecoming was published by Grove Press in 1984"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Homecoming -- 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 -- Woman friend -- Wallpaper -- Against Cinderella -- Old heroines -- Redwing sonnets -- Last night at Tía's -- Afterword : coming home to Homecoming. |
| Summary |
Long before her award-winning novel, How the García 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. Homecoming was 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. 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. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Alvarez, Julia. Homecoming. New York : Plume, ©1996 (OCoLC)656725242 |
| ISBN |
0452275679 |
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9780452275676 |
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9780800045272 (Permabound) |
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0800045270 (Permabound) |
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