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SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, national and international book awards, including the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded- Macondo Writers and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen.
These lush, narrative-lyrics are written with a vivid wild girl spirit, filled with unbridled love, angst and joy! This book is a page-turner and should not be missed! -Marilyn Chin, author of A Portrait of the Self As Nation: New and Selected Poems Woman Without Shame is a wonderful book, inspirational in the best sense-reminding me yet again why poetry is so vital. We need words of substance phrased with passion and insight in these daunting days. -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina A swirling sea of sentiments, stories, and sounds. By the end, I am joyfully replenished. -Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Borrowed Bones and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate The one and only Sandra Cisneros, her distinctive voice sparkling with humor, her words now perceptive, now surprising, and always attuned to the soulful songs of our lives, delivers an empowering portrait of a woman on a journey through a broken yet still beautiful world. Woman Without Shame dazzles with uninhibited energy. May Cisneros continue to inspire us with her poet's heart! -Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of The Book of Ruin These new poems by Sandra Cisneros prove that a mystic poet can be an aging brown-skinned woman shameless in her being. On this road where the sacred and profane hold hands, fight, and even dance a little beneath millions and billions of stars, even being a woman is called a sin. These poems are prayers for understanding this earthy journey of mystery and beauty. These poems cross the road with impunity. Impunity is wearing a fedora and smoking a cigar. These poems send us light. Strangers become relatives. We sit down and have a bite to eat together, a little something to drink, and listen to poetry. I want to live in this book, keep the doors and windows open, even if stray dogs and beggars wander through. -Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate The writing of Sandra Cisneros is an underground fire running through deep water canyons. Her language is in motion in its own time, and we feel it like bodies rubbing together-like light rising. She writes the sound of the possible, what it would sound like in the present tense: She is a woman without shame...glorious in her own skin. Sandra Cisneros is writing life fires, inside the time of other worlds-And we are so lucky to have these brilliant poems. -Jan Beatty, author of American Bastard Mahalo a nui, Sista, for turning the satire of aging into vintage, rakish laughter, such a benevolent rarity. Sandra Cisneros still sees street vendors floating cotton candy clouds, the purposeful excision of toxic folks, the romance in kissing Chihuahuas, and the absolute necessity of putting them all in poems. The poet implores us: 'Do not go into that good night/wearing sensible white and beige.' Honey, she declares, this means you! -Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Behold the Many
