Alvarez, Julia,  1950- <br/><br/>
The other side :  el otro lado / 
 El otro lado 
Julia Alvarez. 
 - New York :  Dutton  Book,  1995. 
 - 155 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Bilingual sestina -- Gladys poems: Audition -- Gladys singing -- Mami and Gauguin -- Grace -- Proof --Abandoned -- Making up the past: Exile -- Papi working -- Queens, 1963 -- New world -- Sound bites -- On not shoplifting Louise Bogan's The Blue Estuaries -- Beginning again -- Making up the past -- Joe poems: First love letter -- Touchstone -- Going back to sleep -- Bookmaking -- Anatomy lesson -- Monkey business -- Last love story -- Missing missives -- Staying up alone -- You remember the definitions, not the words -- Home fires -- Other side/El otro lado : I drove up in Mami's Mercedes -- Down that mountain, Mike and I hike -- Mike and I tour Boca -- I hadn't fit into any of the stories -- Mike and I pretend we're married -- Boca's mayor calls Mike over -- "We also die," says Nana -- Clairol, the youngest of Nana's girls -- El professor Juan Bautista -- Shy schoolgirl in pigtails -- Little house is closed up -- "Tell me," I ask Miguel Angel -- At his bodega, Leo sells everything -- Mike and I have our best talks -- Our brief trip to the capital -- "Who you love? Who you love?" -- Old man sleeps like the dead -- One of los muchos -- I've met everyone in Boca -- My last afternoon in Boca -- I hear Papito calling -- Estel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0525939229 (hc.) 9780525939221 (hc.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dominican Americans--Poetry.<br/>Dominican Americans--Travel--Dominican Republic--Poetry.<br/>Hispanic American women--Poetry.<br/>Dominican Republic--Poetry.<br/>CES<br/>Colección Enriquillo Sánchez
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>118 PS 3551  / A473o1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811