![]() ![]() As Ricardo Ortiz, an English professor at Georgetown, told me, it helped make Cisneros an “indispensable voice.” ![]() First published by Houston’s Arte Público Press in 1984, and reissued by Vintage in 1991, it has become a coming-of-age classic, one that’s read in classrooms across the country and has sold more than six million copies. But she is best known for “ The House on Mango Street,” a semi-autobiographical novel in vignettes that conjures a hardscrabble childhood in nineteen-sixties Chicago. ![]() The sixty-seven-year-old Cisneros is the author of short stories, personal essays, novels, and three previous poetry collections. “I’d throw my poems under the bed, like Emily Dickinson,” she said. Though it’s been twenty-eight years since she’s published a book of poems, she’s never stopped writing them. We had met to talk about her new poetry collection, “ Woman Without Shame,” just out from Knopf. ![]() Wearing a black-and-white huipil and her hair in two small, high buns, Cisneros ordered platters of fideo seco and nopales for the table. “A poem is never done,” the writer Sandra Cisneros told me in July, over dinner at La Posadita, a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, the Mexican city where she’s lived for almost ten years. ![]()
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