The el otro lado Alvarez, Julia 1950- creator text nyu New York Dutton Book 1995 monographic eng

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155 p. ; 21 cm. 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. Julia Alvarez. nwdr--- Dominican Americans Poetry Dominican Americans Travel Dominican Republic Poetry Hispanic American women Poetry Dominican Republic Poetry CES Colección Enriquillo Sánchez 118 PS 3551 A473o1995 811 0525939229 (hc.) 9780525939221 (hc.) MNG 970106 20230410103551.0 spa