In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of
The House on Mango Street
and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
embraces her first passion-verse.
With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her acclaimed fiction,
My Wicked Wicked Ways
presents her in an entirely new light. And for readers everywhere, here is a showcase of one of our most powerful writers at her lyrical best.
“Here the young voice of Esperanza of
merges with that of the grown woman/poet.
is a kind of international graffiti, where the poet—bold and insistent—puts her mark on those traveled places on the map and in the heart.” —Cherríe Moraga