New York: Grove Press, 1984. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. A few small edge-tears and small chips to DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve, faint fold to spine head & foot, barely scuffed corners, ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, else near fine(+) in very good(-) DJ. Remainder mark to bottom edge.. Octavo in yellow DJ; 93 p; 22 cm. Alvarez's first book. Contains the poems: How I learned to sweep -- Dusting -- Making our beds --Master bed -- Washing the windows -- Storm windows -- Hanging the wash -- Ironing their clothes -- Rolling dough -- What could it be? -- Posture lesson -- New clothes -- Orchids -- Heroines.

Synopsis

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.

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Bookseller: Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 82208
Title: Homecoming:; poems
Author: Alvarez, Julia
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - A few small edge-tears and small chips to DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve, faint fold to spine head & foot, barely scuffed
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition, first printing (full number line)
ISBN 10: 0394620526
ISBN 13: 9780394620527
Publisher: Grove Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1984
Keywords: Literature

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