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Fuck yeah...makes me wish I spoke fluent Spanish. Cisneros alternates between English and Spanish in her poems. She writes from the ovaries. If I ever meet Sandra I will buy her a beer and light her cigar.
I'm sure these poems felt bold and revelatory when this book came out in 1994, but now they just seem like rejected Lilith Fair songs.
""You're in love with my mind/But sometimes, sweetheart, a woman needs a man who loves her ass." :]
Like a tango, salsa, musky summer night, Mexican food, women with dark shiny hair, and men with dark eyes. This poetry has it's own scent and taste. When everything you've been reading seems bland, this revives the senses.
Of the poems in this collection, the ones I like the most come from the central section entitled "The Heart Rounds up the Usual Suspects": here is the poem of the same title:I sleep with the catwhen no one will have me.When I can't give it awayfor love or money-I telephone the oneswho used to love me.Or try to lure the leeryinto my pretty web.I'm looney as a June bride.Cold as a bruja's tit. A pathetic bitch.In short an ordinary womanGrateful to excessiveness.At the slightest tug of generousness...
Hey man idk poems really but Sandra came up w some Sick pet names that u can call your lover or best friend: Paper parasol of pleasuresFleshy undertongue of sorrowsSweet potato plant of my addictionsI'll answer to "sweet potato plant" or "undertongue" for short though ty for asking
There are hearts in my eyes right now. I love how casually self-deprecating Sandra Cisneros is."A Few Items To Consider"There is much to learn.Grace of the neck to memorize.Heliotrope of sleep.Hieroglyph of bones to decipherLove, if at all, comes later.For now, the hands take to their dialogue.Gullible as foreigners.A greedy chattering, endlessly on nothingNothing at all."You Like to Give and Watch Me My Pleasure"You could descend like raindestroy like fireif you chose to.If you chose to.I could...
This collection of poetry by Sandra Cisneros is unabashed, unafraid, modern, feminist and at times immodest free verse, which is as precise as it is indolent. At times, it makes you think that it was written spontaneously and other times, it seems to have been written with painstaking exertion. This reminds me of a line from Hamlet, "Brevity is the soul of wit."I leave you with my favourite words of this book from a poem named "Down There".(Playboy poem mentioned below is John Updike's "Cunts" i...
Finding this book was a unique, memorable experience to say the least. When a woman you respect and admire reads a poem aloud as evocative and feminine as "Down There" and you can feel the kinship it is to be among the race of women, you have to buy the book from whence the poem came. Such began my experience with Sandra Cisneros. Having missed the traditional "House on Mango Street" assignment, this dark, erotic, distinctly female collection of poems was my introduction to this author. Thus far...
The poems in Loose Woman are bawdy, audacious, and graphic. After a while, there's a sameness to them--as one lost weekend, one hangover, one angry phone call in the middle of the night must be very like another. Cisneros is a skillful poet and a courageous writer. Poetry, however, is an art, and so much of art depends on the beholder.While the themes of these poems seem to me to be obsessively focused on self, the word choice is often terrific, as in this stanza from "Night Madness Poem":In dre...
