![]() That fearlessness is on display in her newest poetry, where she ruminates on memory, desire, aging, self-love and her life in Mexico with evocative imagery. Cisneros, who has never married nor had children, details in her poems the freeing solitude that comes with breaking from these notions of womanhood. ![]() Know the difference.Ĭisneros tells USA TODAY she "grew up wanting to be a woman without shame," and while to her that shedding is a "lifelong process," she's fearless when speaking her mind, putting pen to paper and owning what she wants out of life at 67. Anyone interested?"Īdmirers of the "House on Mango Street" author – who filled Tia Chucha's to the brim while others crowded outdoors near a window to catch a glimpse of the poet – erupted in laughter and applause throughout the night as she joked, flirted and opened her heart.Ĭisneros is currently on a book tour for her new poetry collection "Woman Without Shame," (Knopf, 176 pp., out now), and as the esteemed Mexican American author writes in the opening poem: She's a mujer sin vergüenza, not a sinvergüenza. ![]() ![]() LOS ANGELES – Draped in her signature shawl, Sandra Cisneros stood in front of an audience of about 100 people at Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural bookstore in Sylmar, California, after reading a poem about her many lovers and their physical attributes, and proclaims: "I'm not ashamed of the lovers I've had in my life. ![]()
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