The Woman I Kept to Myself

The Woman I Kept to Myself

by Julia Alvarez
The Woman I Kept to Myself

The Woman I Kept to Myself

by Julia Alvarez

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Overview

75 Poems by the Author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616200749
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 04/05/2011
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
Lexile: NP (what's this?)
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.

Hometown:

Middlebury, Vermont

Date of Birth:

March 27, 1950

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Middlebury College, 1971; M.F.A., Syracuse University, 1975

Table of Contents

Seven Trees
Family Tree3
Saman5
Weeping Willow7
Maple, Oak, or Elm?9
Arborvitae11
Locust13
Last Trees15
The Woman I Kept to Myself
Intimations of Mortality from a Recollection in Early Childhood19
Anger & Art21
El fotografo23
The Red Pickup25
Spic27
All-American Girl29
Bellevue31
Abbot Academy33
By Accident35
Vain Doubts37
First Muse39
Lunch Hour, 197141
Heartland43
Bad-Weather Friends45
Sisterhoods47
Reunion49
My Bottom Line51
Love Portions53
Fights55
Tone57
Hairbands59
Manholes61
Canons63
My Kind of Woman65
Musco del Hombre67
Ars Politica69
Naming the Animals71
The Animals Review Pictures of a Vanished Race73
Why Don't We Ever See Jesus Laughing?75
Addison's Vision77
Winter Storm79
The Therapist81
Disappearing83
Gaining My Self Back85
That moment87
Signs89
Deathdays91
All's Clear93
Now, When I Look at Women95
At the GYN97
Grand Baby99
Life Lines101
Spring, at Last!103
Regreso105
In Spanish107
You109
Leaving English111
Meditation113
Aficionados115
Touching Bottom117
Cleaning Ladies119
Tom121
I Dream of Allen Ginsberg123
Famous Poet, Years Afterward125
Why I Teach127
Undercover Poet129
Small Portions131
"Poetry makes nothing happen"?133
Reading for Pleasure135
Direct Address137
Passing On139
Keeping Watch
El sereno143
Looking Up145
What We Ask For147
What Was It That I Wanted?149
Keeping Watch151
Why I Write153
Did I Redeem Myself?155
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