The Woman I Kept to Myself
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565124065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.
"The Woman I Kept to Myself" according to Petit Chou. I love Julia Alvarez's other books, especially "In the Time of the Butterflies." This is her newest book, a book of poetry. You can see how these poems reflects the author and they really touched home with me. I read and reread the poems and found pieces of myself in almost each one. I have marked the ones that mean the most to me and return to read them often.. Well Then said A wonderful read!. I was given this collection as a gift a couple of years ago, and I read one or two of the poems, and then put it on my to-be-read shelf. Last week I retrieved the book and read the poems over the course of the weekout loud to myself. What a delight!Each poem is thirty lines long, and divided into three stanzas. There were only a few times that I felt that the form overwhelmed the poem. Alvarez covers a range of subjects in her poems; she writes about trees, about her fami. Beautifully Written Blend of Latina and American Culture. missmickee/bookreview Julia Alvarez (1950-) is recognized as an award winning commercially acclaimed poet/essayist/author that beautifully and skillfully weaves and blends her life experiences between Latina and American culture. "The Woman I Kept to Myself": is creative autobiographical story poetry, beginning in the 1960's to current times.Various stages of Alvarez life (1973-1975), are compared to her great love and appreciation for trees: 'Family Trees', 'Maple, Oak, Elm?', her unhappiness
. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Author of the popular novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez continues to explore themes of cultural difference and personal experience in her new collection of poems. The book, which marks her fourth collection of poetry, comprises 75 poems of 30 lines each; the formal constraint is an organizing principle for these sometimes meandering autobiographical poems. A good many poems explore her development and status as a writer, specifically as a Latina: "Even I, childless one, intend to write/ New Yorker fiction in the Cheever style / but all my stories tell where I came from." The midsection of the book, "The Woman I Kept to Myself," roams from nostalgic reflections on childhood birthday presents to meditations on eating disorders to speedily resolved family conflicts to personal, and worldwide, losses: "Why did it take so