NY: Grove Press, (1984).. First edition.. 93 pp. Two tiny spots to front free endpaper, else fine in near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine and slight wear to crown. INSCRIBED by Alvarez on the title page, “For David / “who touches these poems / touches a woman” / from “33” / Julia Alvarez.” Her second book.

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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: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 67868
Title: Homecoming: Poems.
Author: ALVAREZ, Julia
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: NY: Grove Press
Date Published: (1984).

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