Loose Woman Poems

by CISNEROS, SANDRA

• ISBN13: 9780679755272
• ISBN10: 0679755276
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-14
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. "Poignant, sexy. . . lyrical, passionate. . . cool and delicate. . . hot as a chili pepper."--Boston Globe. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Biography

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of the novels <b>The House on Mango Street</b> and <b>Caramelo</b>, a collection of short stories <b>Woman Hollering Creek</b>, a book of poetry <b>Loose Woman</b>, and a children's book <b>Hairs/Pelitos</b>. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Little Clown, My Heart	p. 3
You Bring Out the Mexican in Me	p. 4
Original Sin	p. 7
Old Maids	p. 9
I Let Him Take Me	p. 11
Extreme Unction	p. 12
A Few Items to Consider	p. 14
I Am So in Love I Grow a New Hymen	p. 16
Your Name Is Mine	p. 18
Something Like Rivers Ran	p. 19
You My Saltwater Pearl	p. 21
You Like to Give and Watch Me My Pleasure	p. 23
Christ You Delight Me	p. 25
En Route to My Lover I Am Detained by Too Many Cities and Human Frailty	p. 26
Dulzura	p. 27
You Called Me Corazon	p. 28
Love Poem for a Non-Believer	p. 29
The Heart Rounds Up the Usual Suspects	p. 33
Waiting for a Lover	p. 34
Well, If You Insist	p. 36
Pumpkin Eater	p. 37
I Am So Depressed I Feel Like Jumping in the River Behind My House but Won't Because I'm Thirty-Eight and Not Eighteen	p. 39
Bay Poem from Berkeley	p. 40
After Everything	p. 41
I Want to Be a Father Like the Men	p. 43
El Alacran Guero	p. 45
Thing in My Shoe	p. 47
Night Madness Poem	p. 49
I Don't Like Being in Love	p. 51
Amorcito Corazon	p. 52
A Little Grief Like Gouache	p. 53
Full Moon and You're Not Here	p. 54
My Friend Turns Beautiful Before My Eyes	p. 56
Perras	p. 58
Unos Cuantos Piquetitos	p. 59
With Lorenzo at the Center of the Universe, el Zocalo, Mexico City	p. 60
I Awake in the Middle of the Night and Wonder If You've Been Taken	p. 64
Small Madness	p. 65
Heart, My Lovely Hobo	p. 69
I Am on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For	p. 70
Cloud	p. 72
Tu Que Sabes de Amor	p. 73
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity	p. 74
Fan of a Floating Woman	p. 76
That Beautiful Boy Who Lives Across from the Handy Andy	p. 77
Black Lace Bra Kind of Woman	p. 78
Down There	p. 79
Los Desnudos: A Triptych	p. 86
Mexicans in France	p. 91
My Nemesis Arrives After a Long Hiatus	p. 93
A Man in My Bed Like Cracker Crumbs	p. 96
Bienvenido Poem for Sophie	p. 97
Arturito the Amazing Baby Olmec Who Is Mine by Way of Water	p. 98
Jumping off Roofs	p. 100
Why I Didn't	p. 102
Las Girlfriends	p. 105
Champagne Poem for La Josie	p. 107
Still Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves	p. 108
Vino Tinto	p. 111
Loose Woman	p. 112
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