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The woman I kept to myself [electronic resource] : poems / by Julia Alvarez.

by Alvarez, Julia.

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Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.

Women -- Poetry.

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9781616200749 (electronic bk.)

161620074X (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (155 p.)

Seven trees -- Family tree -- Samán -- Weeping willow -- Maple, oak, or elm? -- Arborvitae -- Locust -- Last trees -- The woman I kept to myself -- Intimations of mortality from a recollection in early childhood -- Anger & art -- El fotógrafo -- The red pickup -- Spic -- All-American girl -- Bellevue -- Abbot Academy -- By accident -- Vain doubts -- First muse -- Lunch hour, 1971 -- Heartland -- Bad-weather friends -- Sisterhoods -- Reunion -- My bottom line -- Love portions -- Fights -- Tone -- Hairbands -- Manholes -- Canons -- My kind of woman -- Museo del hombre -- Ars politica -- Naming the animals -- The animals review pictures of a vanished race -- Why don't we ever see Jesus laughing? -- Addison's vision -- Winter storm -- The therapist -- Disappearing -- Gaining my self back -- That moment -- Signs -- Deathdays -- All's clear -- Now, when I look at women -- At the GYN -- Grand baby -- Life lines -- Spring, at last! -- Regreso -- In Spanish -- You -- Leaving English -- Meditation -- Aficionados -- Touching bottom -- Cleaning ladies -- Tom -- I dream of Allen Ginsberg -- Famous poet, years afterward -- Why I teach -- Undercover poet -- Small portions -- "Poetry makes nothing happen"? -- Reading for pleasure -- Direct address -- Passing on -- Keeping watch -- El sereno -- Looking up -- What we ask for -- What was it that I wanted? -- Keeping watch -- Why I write -- Did I redeem myself?

The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of 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. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez?s clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the woman she has become.

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