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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Matches Found: 57 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 |
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