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The woman I kept to myself
poems
By Alvarez, Julia
- ISBN
- 978-1-56512-406-6
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2004
Adult/High School This tightly structured collection of 75 poems is divided into three sections, and each poem has three stanzas, exactly. Alvarez's voice, however, is as free and strong as the free verse she composes. The poet, who is from the Dominican Republic, writes about being raised with her sisters in New York. The subjects are personal-love, marriage, rejection, divorce, death, religion-but...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
