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Sandra Cisneros
(Poet)
[December 20, 1954 - ]

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Fiction
  • Vintage Cisneros (2004)
    A winner of the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction and the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, Sandra Cisneros evokes working-class Latino experience with an irresistible mix of realism and lyrical exuberance.

    Vintage Cisneros features an excerpt from her bestselling novel
    The House on Mango Street, which has become a favorite in school classrooms across the country. Also included are a chapter from her new novel, Caramelo; a generous selection of poems from My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman; and seven stories from her award-winning collection Woman Hollering Creek.
     

  • Caramelo (2002)
    The celebrated author of The House on Mango Streetgives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy –- the very stuff of life.

    Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip–a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels–from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties -– and, finally, to Lala’s own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.

    Caramelo is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country’s most beloved storytellers.

  • Hairs/Pelitos (1994)
    This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.

  • Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories (1991)
    A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

  • The House on Mango Street (1988)
    Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.

    Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong -- not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

Poetry
  • Loose Woman (1994)
    A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic

  • My Wicked Wicked Ways (1992)
    Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken, that reveal why her stories have been praised for their precision and musicality of language.

  • Bad Boys (1980)
    Series of seven poems that depict childhood scenes and experiences in the Mexican American ghetto of Chicago.

Other
  • Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual Vol. IV (2006)  Richard Blanco, ed. with Westen Charles, Illustrator
    Includes pieces by Adrian Castro, Deborah Ager, Denise Duhamel, E. Louise Beach, Elisa Albo, Grace Cavalieri, Jody Bolz, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, MartĂn Espada,  Naomi Ayala, P. Scott Cunningham, Rick Barot, Sandra Cisneros, Sarah Browning, and Stephen J. Cribari.

  • Franco Mondini-Ruiz (2005) by Franco Mondini-Ruiz with contributions from Sandra Cisneros
    Stepping into Franco Mondini-Ruiz's world, one would have to be very, very careful not to trip over his porcelain figurine collection. The Tejano artist creates intricate vignettes composed of a vast array of found objects and knickknacks such as costume jewelry, plastic cakes and treats, used ice-cream cups, miniature ceramic figurines, cigarette butts and much, much more. Some of his works toy with language to make witty one-liners about cultural biases. For example, in his piece entitled, Cheeses of Nazareth--among the most playful and pointed of his assemblages--a wedge of cheese propped up by a toothpick-sized stake provides shelter for a tiny plastic Nativity scene that sits upon a larger Parmesan round. One of many verbal-visual puns, Cheeses of Nazareth creates a hilarious confrontation of ritual and subversion through its gesture toward traditional altarpieces found in Mexican folk art. Viewers might peer closely at his installations as if to ask: "Why is that 19th-century woman with the broken arm bathing in a martini glass?," or, "Are those pancakes?," or maybe just to indulge in the pieces' playfulness. Mondini-Ruiz's art is truly a clever meeting of high and low, but the real insight of his work is the ability to expose sober meaning through laughter.

    High Pink further illustrates the meanings behind and within his visual works with 56 often-hilarious stories by the artist that illuminate the cultural divides and bonds that he faced and created during his Tex-Mex childhood. Each story is accompanied by an image of one of Mondini-Ruiz's installations, and this pairing, along with sparkling original text from author Sandra Cisneros, creates an entertaining book with broad cultural, artistic, and linguistic appeal.

  • Elements of Literature: Third Course (1993, 2000) by David Adams Leeming, Janet Burroway, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Leggett, Robert Anderson, and Sandra Cisneros

  • Emergency Tacos: Seven Poets Con Picante (1989)
    Includes works by Beatriz Badikian, Carlos Cortez,Carlos Cumpian, Cynthia Gallaher, Margarita Lopez-Castro, Raul Nino, and Sandra Cisneros.

  • Third Woman: Texas and More (Volume 3, Number 1 & 2) (1986), Norma Alarcon, ed. with Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros

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