The Other Side/El Otro Lado

La revisión de libro de los tiempos de Nueva York ha elogiado la ficción de Alvarez's mientras que "powerful... captura maravillosamente la experiencia del umbral del nuevo inmigrante donde no está todavía una memoria el pasado y el futuro sigue siendo un dream." ansioso; Estas mismas calidades caracterizan su poesía - del "Making encima del Past" poemas, que exploran una vida del exilio según lo vivido por una muchacha joven, a los poemas de Joe del "The, " una serie maravillosamente de poemas sensual y divertidos del amor que celebran un romance de mediana edad. La colección culmina en el poema del título de la veinte-uno-parte sobre la vuelta de poet's a su República Dominicana nativa y a la afirmación interna del conflicto y última que el viaje ocasionó. La innovación y la invención en negrilla, la interacción del sonido, el sentido, y el ritmo de dos idiomas, todas caracterizan el arte de Julia Alvarez's en transformar memoria preciosa en poesía unforgettable.

Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Yo!. She has also published two poetry collections (Homecoming and The Other side/El Otro Lado) and a collection of essays (Something to Declare).

Bilingual Sestina	p. 3
Audition	p. 7
Gladys Singing	p. 10
Mami and Gauguin	p. 12
Grace	p. 15
Proof	p. 18
Abandoned	p. 20
Exile	p. 25
Papi Working	p. 29
Queens, 1963	p. 31
New World	p. 34
Sound Bites	p. 39
On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan's: The Blue Estuaries	p. 45
Between Dominica and Ecuador	p. 48
Beginning Again	p. 52
Making Up the Past	p. 55
First Love Letter	p. 61
Touchstone	p. 64
Going Back to Sleep	p. 68
Bookmaking	p. 71
Anatomy Lesson	p. 74
Monkey Business	p. 79
The Last Love Story	p. 84
Missing Missives	p. 89
Staying Up Alone	p. 93
You Remember the Definitions, Not the Words	p. 98
Home Fires	p. 102
I drove up in Mami's Mercedes	p. 109
Down that mountain, Mike and I hike	p. 111
Mike and I tour Boca	p. 113
I hadn't fit into any of the stories	p. 116
Mike and I pretend we're married	p. 117
Boca's mayor calls Mike over	p. 118
"We also die," says Nana	p. 120
Clairol, the youngest of Nana's girls	p. 122
El profesor Juan Bautista	p. 123
The shy schoolgirl in pigtails	p. 125
The little house is closed up	p. 128
"Tell me," I ask Miguel Angel	p. 130
At his bodega, Leo sells everything	p. 132
Mike and I have our best talks	p. 134
Our brief trip to the capital	p. 135
"Who you love? Who you love?"	p. 137
The old man sleeps like the dead	p. 138
One of los muchos	p. 140
I've met everyone in Boca	p. 143
My last afternoon in Boca	p. 145
I hear Papito calling	p. 148
Estel	p. 153
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