The Other Side
by Alvarez, Julia (Author)Format: Hardcover
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Summary
The New York Times Book Review has praised Julia Alvarez's fiction as "powerful...beautifullycaptures the threshold experience of the new immigrant where the past is not yet a memory and the futureremains an anxious dream." These same qualities characterize her poetry--from the "Making Up the Past"poems, which explore a life of exile as lived by a young girl, to "the Joe Poems," a series of wonderfullysensual and funny love poems celebrating a middle-aged romance. The collection culminates in the twentyone-part title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic and the internal conflict andultimate affirmation that journey occasioned. Bold innovation and invention, the interplay of sound and sense, and the rhythm of two languages all characterize Julia Alvarez's art in transforming precious memory intounforgettable poetry.
Table of Contents
| 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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