Loose Woman
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Seductive, earthy, at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant new collection of poetry celebrates the female aspects of love - from the reflective to the overtly erotic - in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction. These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional and accessible. They are bound together by the voice of one woman, whose language spans cultures and continents. She is a woman who finds great strength from her roots in the barrio, and who knows better than to take herself too seriously, even as she struggles with the anguish of making sense - and making love - in a world she feels compelled to write about. With a multiplicity of moods tumbling through its lines - joyous and introspective, tender and ruthless, self-mocking and sincere, often funny and sometimes wild and rude - Loose Woman offers intoxicating poems of extraordinary insight and vivid imagination.
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Loose Woman
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Book Details
- Publisher:
- Vintage
- ISBN:
- 9780679755272
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 144
- Authors:
- Sandra Cisneros
- Published Date:
- 1995-03-14
- Language:
- English
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Who was your "gateway poet," the poet whose first book or poem made you want to write?
Loose Woman (Vintage) by Sandra Cisneros. I started writing and memorizing poems at a very early age, pretty much as soon as I started to become literate, I became interested in poetry. Poetry was always a part of my experience of the world and of text and how I thought about sound and language. But, I didn't believe that I could ever become a poet. I was reciting Whitman and Poe and a lot of dead white guys. Sure, there was Emily Dickinson, but no teacher I had knew how to teach her work, and it seemed so impossible to me at that time. When I discovered Sandra Cisneros's Loose Woman one day while browsing in a bookstore in Kentucky (remember the serendipity of analog discovery before the era of algorithm?), it changed everything for me. Here was poetry that was fun and musical but also not formal or stuffy, and it felt alive and about a familiar world. It was the first book that gave me the feeling that my own voice might be valuable and that my own life and thoughts might offer the substance of poetry.