Visitations : poems / Julia Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarez, Julia, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

poetry.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.

Summary:

"In these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, family and sofrito, tías and the sisters who forged her, her move to America and overcoming English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers and the homes where she grew up and into the formidable writer read in thousands of classrooms across America today. In these poems, her wisdom is as clear and beautiful as the light that shines through crystal and yet grounded through form and the substance of self-knowing."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. Recitation

On Sundays

Balancing Acts

My Sister's Restaurant

Erasing the Blackboards

Mami At Her Vanity

II. Waiting for My Father to Pick Me Up at the Library

American Dreams

Mami on Menses

Papi's Clocks

Ariadne in Bloomingdale's

III. First Marriage

At the Mental Health Clinic Waiting Room

The Four Girls

The Long and the Short of It

IV. Falling in Love in Late Fall

On a Hill Above Your House

Dream Girl

What Goes Wrong

Amenorrhea

Late Winter Walk

V. The Red Bathrobe

Visitation

Who To Ask?

Muse Sighting in Matanzas

I Go Through the House, Turning Off Lights

Sobremesa.

Notes:

"A Borzoi book"

Includes bibliographical references (page 89)

Other Format:

Online version Alvarez, Julia Visitations

ISBN:

9780593805039

0593805038

OCLC:

1527875537