![]() ![]() ![]() By permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York. (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. Loose Woman poem by Sandra Cisneros is the last poem in the collection that presents her vision of herself and women in general. 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: Seductive, earthy, at times confessional, Sandra Cisneross vibrant new collection of poetry celebrates the female aspects of love - from the reflective to. ![]()
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