48 reviews for:

The Woman I Kept to Myself

Julia Alvarez

4.0 AVERAGE

lucyisaula's review against another edition

4.0

fast-paced

andymoon's review against another edition

4.0

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Lovely collection of autobiographical poems. So many beautiful lines. It's now one of my favorite poetry collections.

chameleonhound's review against another edition

4.75

hopeful reflective

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My favorite poems were Last Trees, The Red Pickup, Vain Doubts, My Bottom Line, Canons, and The Animals Review Pictures of a Vanished Race

hanjang's review against another edition

3.0

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I prefer prose to poetry, but this collection was short and very accessible, so I gave it a shot. A few of the poems threw me off with their unpleasant (pretentious, whining, borderline ridiculous, etc.) tone, but I found many more to be thoughtful or touching.

txmxy's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

thebookkeepers's review

5.0

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Autobiographical poems which explore many avenues of life such as marriage, divorce, love, loss, death, health, depression, immigration, sexism, religion, self doubt, and nature. I loved the vivid imagery the author used as well as the smooth flow of the poems. Beautiful collection that has a nice balance of joy and sorrow. You will leave feeling like you understand this author a personal note. Lovely - 4.5 stars!

Full review posted on my blog.

anmoore14's review

4.0

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A collection of words born from the inability to be formed into expectation. Beautiful.

raquelraquel's review

5.0

inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

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I cannot recommend these poems enough

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

4.0

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Beautiful poetry that explores family, culture, womanhood, and writing

bloodravenlib's review

4.0

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See my blog post on it:

http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/06/booknote-woman-i-kept-to-myself.html