Vintage Cisneros

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. "Sandra Cisneros knows both that the heart can be broken and that it can rise and soar like a bird. Whatever story she chooses to tell, we should be listening for a long time to come." The Washington Post Book World A winner of the PEN Center West Award for Best Fiction and the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, Sandra Cisneros evokes working-class Latino experience with an irresistible mix of realism and lyrical exuberance. 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, a book of poetry Loose Woman, and a children's book Hairs/Pelitos. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Hairs	p. 3
My Name	p. 4
Our Good Day	p. 6
Those Who Don't	p. 9
Darius & the Clouds	p. 10
The Family of Little Feet	p. 11
Hips	p. 15
Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water	p. 19
Four Skinny Trees	p. 22
No Speak English	p. 23
A House of My Own	p. 26
Preface	p. 27
Abuelito Who	p. 31
My Wicked Wicked Ways	p. 33
Ass	p. 35
Peaches - Six in a Tin Bowl, Sarajevo	p. 37
14 de Julio	p. 38
Eleven	p. 40
Salvador Late or Early	p. 45
Tepeyac	p. 47
Never Marry a Mexican	p. 51
Bread	p. 70
Eyes of Zapata	p. 71
Little Miracles, Kept Promises	p. 104
You Bring Out the Mexican in Me	p. 120
You Like to Give and Watch Me My Pleasure	p. 123
Love Poem for a Non-Believer	p. 125
I Am So Depressed I Feel Like Jumping in the River Behind My House But Won't Because I'm Thirty-Eight and Not Eighteen	p. 127
Night Madness Poem	p. 128
I Am on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband for	p. 130
Cloud	p. 132
Tu Que Sabes de Amor	p. 134
Mexicans in France	p. 136
Loose Woman	p. 138
Verde, Blanco, y Colorado	p. 141
Chillante	p. 143
Mexico Next Right	p. 148
Tarzan	p. 153
So Here My History Begins for Your Good Understanding and My Poor Telling	p. 159
Cuidate	p. 168
Spic Spanish?	p. 171
All Parts from Mexico, Assembled in the U.S.A. or I Am Born	p. 173
The Vogue	p. 176
Someday My Prince Popocatepetl Will Come	p. 183
Pilon	p. 194
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