{"product_id":"homecoming-new-and-collected-poems-9780452275676","title":"Homecoming: New and Collected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eHomecoming 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong before her award winning novel, \u003ci\u003eHow the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Alvarez \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and \u003ci\u003eYo!\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published two poetry collections (\u003ci\u003eHomecoming \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Other side\/El Otro Lado\u003c\/i\u003e) and a collection of essays (\u003ci\u003eSomething to Declare\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Álvarez\u003c\/b\u003e es la autora de \u003ci\u003eDe cómo las chicas García perdieron el acento\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEn el tiempo de las mariposas\u003c\/i\u003e (un finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award) y \u003ci\u003e¡Yo!\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTambién ha publicado dos colecciones de poesía y una colección de ensayos. Julia Álvarez vive en Vermont y en República Dominicana, donde dirige una cooperativa de café orgánico, y un centro de alfabetización y arte con su esposo.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412140429586,"sku":"9780452275676","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f73cee26-6bc9-4d66-835e-6905bfdc73cb.jpg?v=1729313544","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/homecoming-new-and-collected-poems-9780452275676","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}