![]() Browsing the stacks for unexpected gems, I came across the poetry section, which took up no more than a single rectangle on one shelf. Recently, I moved to a new town, and our local library is beautiful-castle-like-but small. ![]() And I still hold Sandra Cisneros in high regard. A cruel editor might even comment, 'This is the pits.'"īut, yea. We poets read published work like this and say to ourselves, "Really?" Then we think, "If I sent that in, it'd be rejected sixty-six ways to Sunday. Here's an example of a poem that wasn't so peachy keen: At least this collection gets stronger as it goes. I was a bit disappointed, then, to see that I preferred Cisneros's vignettes to her poetry. And many vignettes in that book are sheer poetry themselves. ![]() After teaching her collection of vignettes, The House on Mango Street, over and over and did I say over(?) again, I wondered what Cisneros's poetry would look like.Įsperanza, the autobiographical protagonist in Mango, after all, speaks more than once of her poetry. ![]() This book is wicked old (as they say in these parts), coming out in 1987. ![]()
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