She takes and abandons lovers and is abandoned in turn. By permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York. These are mostly love poems, spoken by a mature woman who loves hard, who takes risks and accepts the consequences. (From "Loose Woman." Copyright1994 by Sandra Cisneros.
I'll leave you with another one of her gems: She began as a poet, though, and no matter what genre she elects to pour her energy into, the sheer vibrancy of her language-whether tender or raucous, wicked or sweet (or best of all, sweetly wicked)-shines through. And the year after Cisneros published her second collection of short fiction, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, she received a MacArthur "genius" grant.
Sandra Cisneros is better known as a fiction writer: Her wildly popular first book, The House on Mango Street, presents interconnected stories about Esperanza, a young woman trying to sort out what it means to be Hispanic in urban America. This little poem never fails to make me smile-it leads off Sandra Cisneros's 1994 volume of poems, Loose Woman, and is a lightly irreverent, highly rhetorical declaration, a rococo piece of work that quicksteps through the minefield of modern love:
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