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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
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 sinfonico y esplendido... un magnifico tesoro para todas las culturas y todos los tiempos... una novela que celebra la corriente de vida que fluye entre las mujeres, conectandolas y dandolas 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 narracion enriquecedora... entrelaza habilmente la realidad y la ficcion hasta alcanzar un sobrecogedor climax."-Newsweek
"Una novela con un tremendo poder... un libro bello y valiente."-West Coast Review of Books
Praise for Once Upon a Quinceanera
"Phenomenal... indispensable. Alvarez's novelistic eye makes Once Upon a Quinceanera 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
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 135 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-452-27567-6 (9780452275676)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the Garcia 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 Alvarez es la autora de De como las chicas Garcia perdieron el acento, En el tiempo de las mariposas (un finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award) y !Yo!. Tambien ha publicado dos colecciones de poesia y una coleccion de ensayos. Julia Alvarez vive en Vermont y en Republica Dominicana, donde dirige una cooperativa de cafe organico, y un centro de alfabetizacion 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 Tia's
Afterword: Coming Home to Homecoming
