Woman Without Shame
Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 22, 2023
A brave collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.
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- Who it’s for
- Poems of memory, desire, and love move between blunt honesty, humor, and a search for home.
- Themes
- Memory, desire, and love, Rebirth and self-awareness, Home and ancestral roots
- Pacing
- Reflective
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A brave collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street. It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published her last book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist.
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These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.
Honest Verses
Poems of memory, desire, and love move between blunt honesty, humor, and a search for home.
Come here for
- Bluntly honest meditations, with humor in the mix
- Poems tracing memory, desire, love, and the search for home
Expect
- Songs, elegies, and declarations
- A path toward self-awareness and rebirth
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Poetry | 93% |
|---|---|
| Women Poets | 40% |
| Love Poetry | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hispanic American Poetry
- Poetry - General Themes
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Sandra Cisneros
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- August 22, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Memory, desire, and love · Rebirth and self-awareness · Home and ancestral roots
- Reading lane
- Hispanic American Poetry