Homecoming: New and Collected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780452275676)

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.

Author: Julia Alvarez
ISBN-10: 0452275679
ISBN-13: 9780452275676
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.29w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/1996 pg. 67
Library Journal 04/01/1996 pg. 84