Homecoming: New and Collected Poems

by Julia Alvarez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452275679
• ISBN13: 9780452275676
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Homecoming

This book addresses topics like war and the generational gap facing women through the context of housekeeping. It tackles the opposition of moments, not through anger or frustration but through the comedy of life. Alvarez hints to the excess of love in this world being focused on material possessions because of the before mentioned generational gap and the cynical views held by the previous generation. She expresses her belief in the allegiance to duty as being honorable. This book is a celebration of the "single minded labors/of the single women artist." And finally this collection of poems calls into question the hierarchy of values and the idea that as human beings, men or women, "What comes first?" Overall, these poems are a direct link to the struggles and happiness women face in society today that are not just brought on by the patriarchal, but the mothers and grandmothers that preceded them.