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[December 20, 1954 - ] |
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Vintage Cisneros (2004)
Vintage Cisneros features an excerpt from her bestselling novel
The House on Mango Street,
which has become a favorite in school classrooms across the country. Also
included are a chapter from her new novel,
Caramelo; a generous selection of poems from
My Wicked Wicked Ways and
Loose Woman; and seven stories from her award-winning collection
Woman Hollering Creek.
Caramelo (2002)
Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or
shawl, makers. The striped caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all,
and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to
represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual
car trip–a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels–from
Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that
Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the "healthy
lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from
the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled
streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties -– and, finally, to
Lala’s own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San
Antonio, Texas.
Caramelo is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes
imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work
destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country’s
most beloved storytellers.
Hairs/Pelitos (1994)
This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling
The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the
diversity among us.
Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories
(1991)
A collection of stories, whose characters
give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican
border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled
with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
The House on Mango Street (1988)
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their
eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired
novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents,
taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the
country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of
coming-of-age classics.
Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango
Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of
harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong -- not
to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has
for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power,
and inventing for herself what she will become.
Loose Woman (1994)
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn
collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of
love, from the
reflective to the overtly erotic
My Wicked Wicked Ways (1992)
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.
Bad Boys (1980)
Series
of seven poems that depict childhood scenes and experiences in the Mexican
American ghetto of Chicago.
Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual Vol. IV
(2006) Richard Blanco, ed.
with Westen Charles, Illustrator
Includes pieces by Adrian Castro, Deborah Ager, Denise Duhamel, E. Louise
Beach, Elisa Albo, Grace Cavalieri, Jody Bolz, Luis Alberto Ambroggio,
MartĂn Espada, Naomi Ayala, P. Scott Cunningham, Rick Barot, Sandra
Cisneros, Sarah Browning, and Stephen J. Cribari.
Franco Mondini-Ruiz (2005) by
Franco Mondini-Ruiz with contributions from Sandra
Cisneros
Stepping into Franco Mondini-Ruiz's world, one would have
to be very, very careful not to trip over his porcelain figurine
collection. The Tejano artist creates intricate vignettes composed of a
vast array of found objects and knickknacks such as costume jewelry,
plastic cakes and treats, used ice-cream cups, miniature ceramic
figurines, cigarette butts and much, much more. Some of his works toy with
language to make witty one-liners about cultural biases. For example, in
his piece entitled, Cheeses of Nazareth--among the most playful and
pointed of his assemblages--a wedge of cheese propped up by a
toothpick-sized stake provides shelter for a tiny plastic Nativity scene
that sits upon a larger Parmesan round. One of many verbal-visual puns,
Cheeses of Nazareth creates a hilarious confrontation of ritual and
subversion through its gesture toward traditional altarpieces found in
Mexican folk art. Viewers might peer closely at his installations as if to
ask: "Why is that 19th-century woman with the broken arm bathing in a
martini glass?," or, "Are those pancakes?," or maybe just to indulge in
the pieces' playfulness. Mondini-Ruiz's art is truly a clever meeting of
high and low, but the real insight of his work is the ability to expose
sober meaning through laughter.
High Pink further illustrates the meanings behind and within his
visual works with 56 often-hilarious stories by the artist that illuminate
the cultural divides and bonds that he faced and created during his
Tex-Mex childhood. Each story is accompanied by an image of one of Mondini-Ruiz's
installations, and this pairing, along with sparkling original text from
author Sandra Cisneros, creates an
entertaining book with broad cultural, artistic, and linguistic appeal.
Elements of Literature: Third Course (1993, 2000)
by David Adams Leeming, Janet Burroway, John Malcolm Brinnin, John
Leggett, Robert Anderson, and Sandra Cisneros
Emergency Tacos: Seven Poets Con Picante (1989)
Includes works by Beatriz Badikian, Carlos
Cortez,Carlos Cumpian, Cynthia Gallaher, Margarita Lopez-Castro, Raul
Nino, and Sandra Cisneros.
Third Woman: Texas and More (Volume 3, Number 1 & 2) (1986),
Norma Alarcon, ed. with Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros
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