The Woman I Kept to Myself - by Julia Alvarez (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Seventy-five autobiographical poems by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Brave and vivid . . . Seventy-five poems express wonder, anger, grief and joy in clear, accessible narratives." --<i>The Miami Herald</i><br><br>"Charming and intense at the same time, Alvarez writes candidly of epic concerns and everyday realities in this unfailingly lucid collection of autobiographical poems." --Booklist<br><br>"The poems are, like precious moments in life, nuggets to be savored and reflected upon." --<i>The Dallas Morning News</i><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. A novelist, poet, and essayist, she is the author of nineteen books, including <i>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, </i><i>In the Time of the Butterflies--</i>a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Selection--<i>Yo!, Something to Declare, In the Name of Salome, Saving the</i><i>World, A Wedding in Haiti, </i>and <i>The Woman I Kept to Myself</i>. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including the 2013 National Medal of Arts, a Latina Leader Award in Literature in 2007 from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the 2002 Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the 2000 Woman of the Year by <i>Latina</i> magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's 1996 program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." A writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Alvarez and her husband, Bill Eichner, established Alta Gracia, an organic coffee farm-literacy arts center, in her homeland, the Dominican Republic.
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