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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABANDONED, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladys, where did you go?
Last Line: To recall you to your creation
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ANATOMY LESSON, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are sitting in bed, my legs on your lap
Last Line: Nor I yet touched down upon from %my high expectations
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


AT HIS BODEGA, LEO SELLS EVERYTHING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His own hands fall limp at his sides, then plunge deep into his pockets
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


AUDITION, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Porfirio drove mami and me
Last Line: Abruptly, her singing stopped
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BEGINNING AGAIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
Last Line: The grasses bending, the car pointing %towards the horizon I'll call home
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BETWEEN DOMINICA AND ECUADOR, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The earphoned guardians click off %the dominican republic
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BILINGUAL SESTINA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Some things I have to say aren't getting said
Last Line: Heart beating, beating inside what I say en ingles
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Literary Form; Travel; Women


BOCA'S MAYOR CALLS MIKE OVER, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We've signed out in his death notebook in unerasable ink!
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BOOKMAKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the pierpont morgan I go up and down
Last Line: And the handing down to the generations to come %the world's body loved by our passionate arts
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


CLARIOL, THE YOUNGEST OF NANA'S GIRLS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The next meal and the next child she doesn't want
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


DOWN THAT MOUNTAIN, MIKE AND I HIKE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where another country waits, %the one I came to discover
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


EL PROFESOR JUAN BAUTISA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And snips with a pair of scissors seven times two kids free!
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ESTEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your name, esther, in your mother's shy campesino voice
Last Line: Beyond my reach, deep in the mute heart
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


EXILE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night we fled the country, papi
Last Line: Eager, afraid, not yet sure of the outcome
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


FIRST LOVE LETTER, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest- %addressed by your hand the envelope seems
Last Line: Your common-sounding, no less cherished name- %joe
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


GLADYS SINGING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladys sang as she worked
Last Line: Rooms sparkling like jewels %in a mummy's lonely tomb
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


GOING BACK TO SLEEP, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After making love, I hear you in the bathroom
Last Line: All night we go back and forth, back and forth, %towards what we think we want
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


GRACE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A soft rap at the door
Last Line: And the storm again begins
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


HOME FIRES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our last full day together we pass a house
Last Line: As if we could combine our lives and blow %this ending out
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I DROVE UP IN MAMI'S MERCEDES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Waving the guard adios, I headed down the mountain
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I HADN'T FIT INTO ANY OF THE STORIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Chiquita, I was on my way back to where I cam from!
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I HEAR PAPITO CALLING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the shore I've made up on the other side
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I'VE MET EVERYONE IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A happy ending to close at least one version of my story
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


LAST LOVE STORY, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After you tell me %your last love story
Last Line: In spite of yourself %again becoming
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


LITTLE HOUSE IS CLOSED UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fists posed to knock-we freeze. Are we ready for happiness?
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MAKING UP THE PAST, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This never happened and yet I want the memory
Last Line: I will keep coming back to all my imagined life
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MAMI AND GAUGUIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gauguin's barebreasted girls %hung above the sideboard
Last Line: Signing my name with the flourish %of an artist on her canvas
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MIKE AND I HAVE OUR BEST TALKS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Down main the desperate strains of 'satisfaction' approaching
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MIKE AND I PRETEND WE'RE MARRIED, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mike and I look at each other, his gaze is the first to falter
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MIKE AND I TOUR BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Men and women who died by the truths that they believed in
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MISSING MISSIVES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fellini's amarcord, the idiot
Last Line: Your heart, your lips, your loins %to me-or so you say
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MONKEY BUSINESS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You send me to read the latest
Last Line: The monkey business of the human heart
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MY LAST AFTERNOON IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then ordering her home, he breaks my trance
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


NEW WORLD, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tia ana and tia fofi worked at la factoria. Tia
Last Line: Tia fofi rose as if they also agreed with what %had become of me
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


OLD MAN SLEEPS LIKE THE DEAD, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come down, fisher of men, see if you can catch us again!'
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ON NOT SHOPLIFTING LOUISE BOGAN'S THE BLUE ESTUARIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Your book surprised me on the bookstore shelf
Last Line: And I put the book back
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ONE OF LOS MUCHOS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Accusing with his silence, %wanting, finding me wanting
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


OUR BRIEF TRIP TO THE CAPITAL, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But passing the scene of our fight, all I longed for was happiness
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


PAPI WORKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The long day spent listening %to homesick hearts
Last Line: They came to hear him say %nada in their mother tongue
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


PARSLEY, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a parrot imitating spring
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Language; Parsley; Racism; Trujillo, Rafael (1891-1961); Words; Vocabulary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


PROOF, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Papi brought home a puppy
Last Line: Right under our very noses
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


QUEENS, 1963, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone seemed more american
Last Line: Before the first foreigners owned %any of this free country
Subject(s): Americans; Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; United States; Women


SHY SCHOOLGIRL IN PIGTAILS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just waiting for luz to say the magic word
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: EL ROUND UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those hard days now called a background!
Last Line: From one language to another
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: FIRST DAYS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nueva york, el hotel beverly
Last Line: What else didn't you tell us?
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, mami, what a shame
Last Line: Wears a little pillbox hat
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: I SIZE UP LA SITUATION, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Translate yourself, nina
Last Line: From the united states of america
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: MAMI'S ADVICE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep your voices down, girls
Last Line: I dont want to hear another word
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: TALKING BACK TO MAMI (YEARS LATER), by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had to cut myself out
Last Line: Not who you really are
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


STAYING UP ALONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a week apart we sit face to face
Last Line: In this locality-a grown woman
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


TELL ME,' I ASK MIGUEL ANGEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As I take the reins into my trembling hands
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


TOUCHSTONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At la guardia's touch-tone, charge-a-call phone
Last Line: Imagined bodies %genuinely touching
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


WE ALSO DIED,' SAYS NANA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bare as nana's palms lined only with her bad fortune
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


WHO YOU LOVE? WHO YOU LOVE?, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: How even what I loved belongs to me
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


WO/MEN, by CHIQUI VICIOSO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wo/men draped in black
Last Line: Iron women, rock women
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Farm Life; Women


WORD MADE FLESH, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked up the words
Last Line: In his corazon and my body
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


YOU REMEMBER THE DEFINITIONS, NOT THE WORDS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the first grand month of passion %and wild hope
Last Line: The poems of our trying %to talk ourselves in love
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women