My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)

Hailed as "not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one" (The New York Times Book Review), Sandra Cisneros has firmly established herself as an author of electrifying talent. 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. A Collection Of Poetry Attests To The Author's Original Passion And Reveals Her Talent For Employing The Precision And Musicality Of Language In Verses Both Comic And Sad. 1200 South/2100 West -- Velorio -- Sir James South Side -- South Sangamon -- Abuelito Who -- Arturo Burro -- Mexican Hat Dance -- Good Hotdogs -- Muddy Kid Comes Home -- I Told Susan Reyna -- Twister Hits Houston -- Curtains -- Joe -- Traficante -- My Wicked Wicked Ways -- My Wicked Wicked Ways -- Six Brothers -- Mariela -- Josie Bliss -- I The Woman -- Something Crazy -- In A Redneck Bar Down The Street -- Love Poem #1 -- The Blue Dress -- The Poet Reflects On Her Solitary Fate -- His Story -- Other Countries -- Letter To Ilona From The South Of France -- Ladies, South Of France - Venice -- December 24th, Paris - Notre-dame -- Beautiful Man - France -- Postcard To The Lace Man - The Old Market, Antibes -- Letter To Jahn Franco - Venice -- To Cesare, Goodbye -- Ass -- Trieste - Ciao To Italy -- Peaches - Six In A Tin Bowl, Sarajevo -- Hydra Night - House On Fire -- Hydra Coming Down In Rain -- Fishing Calamari By Moon -- Moon In Hydra -- One Last Poem For Richard -- For A Southern Man -- The Rodrigo Poems -- A Woman Cutting Celery -- Sensuality Plunging Barefoot Into Thorns -- Valparaiso -- I Understand It As A Kiss -- For All Tuesday Travelers -- No Mercy -- The World Without Rodrigo -- Rodrigo Returns To The Land And Linen Celebrates -- Beatrice -- Rodrigo De Barro -- Rodrigo In The Dark -- The So-and So's -- Monsieur Mon Ami -- Drought -- By Way Of Explanation -- Ame, Amo, Amare -- Men Asleep -- New Year's Eve -- 14 De Julio -- Tantas Cosas Asustan, Tantas -- Sandra Cisneros. Most Poems In English, One In Spanish. In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature embraces her first passion-verse. With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her acclaimed fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways presents her in an entirely new light. And for readers everywhere, here is a showcase of one of our most powerful writers at her lyrical best. “Here the young voice of Esperanza of The House on Mango Street merges with that of the grown woman/poet. My Wicked Wicked Ways is a kind of international graffiti, where the poet—bold and insistent—puts her mark on those traveled places on the map and in the heart.” —Cherríe Moraga