Want to revisit and revise your life? Vermont writer Julia Alvarez knows how.
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Weybridge writer Julia Alvarez holds her official look-alike Barbie doll. Photo courtesy of Mattel
Ask Weybridge writer Julia Alvarez how her prolific career took root and she’ll dig back seven decades to her 1950s childhood, when she memorized verses recalled in her later poem, “Recitation.”
Here I am starting again where I first began,
in a pink party dress with a flaring crinoline,
waiting to entertain my mother’s friends
after their afternoon game of canasta …
The 76-year-o
Ask Weybridge writer Julia Alvarez how her prolific career took root and she’ll dig back seven decades to her 1950s childhood, when she memorized verses recalled in her later poem, “Recitation.”
Here I am starting again where I first began,
in a pink party dress with a flaring crinoline,
waiting to entertain my mother’s friends
after their afternoon game of canasta …
The 76-year-o
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