Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. At all times, Sandra Cisneros has penned poetry of utterly divine language and imagery.”įIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 1995Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. But sometimes they are simply love poems in wonderment of life and death. “Loose Woman is a collection of love poems for the nonbeliever, some sheer jade and some for the jaded, a noose for the lover on the loose, a net for the next novio. Joy Harjo, author of In Mad Love and War

If you’re looking for notes of passion from the heartfield, these accomplished poems won’t disappoint.” These poems are firecrackers and tequila, with a little candlelight and lace linen. “I love these poems! Sandra Cisneros has attained a sureness possible when someone faces down the terrors of intimacy, the push-pull of relationships. Cisneros shakes the blue sky, poetry intoxicates.”

“These poems are celebrations and incantations of a woman in search of her place as a woman, wands that put a spell in the reader’s heart. Loose Woman a gallery of gems and beasts fashioned by a skilled writer’s hand.… Readers are drawn to her magnetic images, her liberal use of Spanish words and expressions, and her blending of poetry and prose.” “The poems in this collection mourn, swear, flirt and tell stones. “Soulful, sexy and grand, Sandra Cisneros’s Loose Woman is a hothouse feast of word-play, divine love, earthy humor, mariachi yearnings, and powerhouse passion.” Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents She says it all in these sassy, tangy, intimate poems.” “Sandra Cisneros’s voice is naughty with all we girls were taught not to say out loud-or even whisper. “Frankly erotic, mixing delicate imagery with a pop sensibility and a discreet but spicy sprinkling of blunt sexuality.” Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban Sandra Cisneros has a gift and an attitude we should all be grateful for.” Eduardo Galeano, author of Memory of Fire “Thank you, wicked wicked woman, for shooting up these loose arrows to the high hells of poetry, passion and humor.”

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