My Wicked Wicked Ways
Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 28, 2015
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Sandra Cisneros brings comic and sad notes to a poetry collection with lyrical radiance.
- Themes
- Human experience
- Genres
- Hispanic American Poetry, Women Poets, American Poetry
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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.
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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
Plainspoken Verse
Sandra Cisneros brings comic and sad notes to a poetry collection with lyrical radiance.
Come here for
- Poems that hold humor and sadness together
- A different light on Cisneros beyond her fiction
Expect
- Plainspoken lines exploring the human experience
- A lyrical collection rather than a plot-driven read
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Poetry | 96% |
|---|---|
| American Poetry | 30% |
| Women Poets | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hispanic American Poetry
- Family Poems
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Sandra Cisneros
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 28, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human experience
- Reading lane
- Hispanic American Poetry