LOOSE WOMAN -- a candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love

Loose Woman: Poems by Sandra Cisneros (1995, Vintage; 115 pages)

Sandra Cisneros is well known as one of the voices emerged from the barrio, the lyrically inventive author of the novel The House on Mango Street. Always a fierce and unique feminist writer, with an audacious point of view of life in America, in this book she decides to unravel her most inner thoughts about the following topics: sex, love, womanhood and her dual culture. 

Reading her poems carries you to a Norteño music scene where you'll be surrounded by a very particular Mexican-American psyche. Loose Woman is a collection of love poems that push and face down desires, terrors, relationships. They have been described by Joy Harjo as "firecrackers and tequila, with a little candlelight and lace linen."

If you are not afraid to be intoxicated by the eroticism of poetry, you will enjoy this book from beginning to the end. Highly recommended.

You Called Me Corazón
That was enough 
for me to forgive you. 
To spirit a tiger 
from its cell.
Called me corazón 
in that instant before 
I let go the phone 
back to its cradle.
Your voice small. 
Heat of your eyes, 
how I would've placed 
my mouth on each.
Said corazón 
and the word blazed 
like a branch of jacaranda.

Find this title in our catalog: Loose Woman

Recommended by: Maite

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