Book: Paperback | 5.51 x 7.91in | 128 pages | ISBN 9780452275676 | 01 Apr 1996 | Plume | 18 years
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. 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.
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
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