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The woman I kept to myself : poems / by Julia Alvarez.
Van Pelt Library PS3551.L845 W66 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvarez, Julia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.
- Summary:
- The works of award-winning poet and novelist Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life.
- Since her first celebrated novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, she has been expressing the passions and opinions of sisters and aunts, mothers and daughters, heroines and martyrs. In The Woman I Kept to Myself, seventy-five poems that weave together the narrative of a woman's inner life, it is Alvarez's own clear voice that sings out in every line. These are not poems of a woman discovering herself -- Alvarez might say that's what her twenties were for -- but of a woman returning to herself. Now, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the woman she has become. Her voice becomes all our voices as she speaks of failed loves and marriages, late-in-life love, politics and prejudices that haunt us. The humanity and humor that permeate even her darkest thoughts are offered to the reader in these wise and intimate poems.
- Contents:
- Seven Trees
- Family Tree 3
- Saman 5
- Weeping Willow 7
- Maple, Oak, or Elm? 9
- Arborvitae 11
- Locust 13
- Last Trees 15
- The Woman I Kept to Myself
- Intimations of Mortality from a Recollection in Early Childhood 19
- Anger & Art 21
- El fotografo 23
- The Red Pickup 25
- Spic 27
- All-American Girl 29
- Bellevue 31
- Abbot Academy 33
- By Accident 35
- Vain Doubts 37
- First Muse 39
- Lunch Hour, 1971 41
- Heartland 43
- Bad-Weather Friends 45
- Sisterhoods 47
- Reunion 49
- My Bottom Line 51
- Love Portions 53
- Fights 55
- Tone 57
- Hairbands 59
- Manholes 61
- Canons 63
- My Kind of Woman 65
- Musco del Hombre 67
- Ars Politica 69
- Naming the Animals 71
- The Animals Review Pictures of a Vanished Race 73
- Why Don't We Ever See Jesus Laughing? 75
- Addison's Vision 77
- Winter Storm 79
- The Therapist 81
- Disappearing 83
- Gaining My Self Back 85
- That moment 87
- Signs 89
- Deathdays 91
- All's Clear 93
- Now, When I Look at Women 95
- At the GYN 97
- Grand Baby 99
- Life Lines 101
- Spring, at Last! 103
- Regreso 105
- In Spanish 107
- You 109
- Leaving English 111
- Meditation 113
- Aficionados 115
- Touching Bottom 117
- Cleaning Ladies 119
- Tom 121
- I Dream of Allen Ginsberg 123
- Famous Poet, Years Afterward 125
- Why I Teach 127
- Undercover Poet 129
- Small Portions 131
- "Poetry makes nothing happen"? 133
- Reading for Pleasure 135
- Direct Address 137
- Passing On 139
- Keeping Watch
- El sereno 143
- Looking Up 145
- What We Ask For 147
- What Was It That I Wanted? 149
- Keeping Watch 151
- Why I Write 153
- Did I Redeem Myself? 155.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1565124065
- OCLC:
- 53967117
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