Visitations: Poems

Visitations: Poems - Hardcover

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Visitations: Poems - Hardcover

Visitations: Poems - Hardcover

by Julia Alvarez
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Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver.

"Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids miracles and mourning, infused with the compassion that characterizes all the work of this resplendent writer." --Martín Espada, National Book Award-winning author of Jailbreak of Sparrows

In these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, the smells of sancocho and sofrito, the formative influence of her tías and her sisters, her move to America and the challenges of learning English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers, visit the homes where she grew up and the homes where she grew into the formidable writer read in thousands of classrooms across America today. Her wisdom is as clear and beautiful as the light that shines through glass and yet grounded through the form and substance of self-knowing.

Told with a storyteller's intimacy and the comfort of a warm hearth, this is a master writer's reflection on family, aging, love, the body, having a voice, and the very act of composing poetry itself, experienced across the arc of decades--a collection of searching for an artistic voice, for the author's very essence, until, "the way it sometimes happens: we arrive / where we were promised, belong to / what we longed for in ourselves, each other."
ISBN9780593805039
Author Julia Alvarez
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedApril 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Visitations: Poems

Visitations: Poems - Hardcover

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By Julia Alvarez

About Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. In 2024, she was profiled in the American Masters documentary, "Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined," on PBS.

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