Instead, when it happened the first time, when they were barely man and wife, she had been so stunned, it left her speechless, motionless, numb. She had always said she would strike back if a man, any man, were to strike her.īut when the moment came, and he slapped her once, and then again, and again, until the lip split and bled an orchid of blood, she didn't fight back, she didn't break into tears, she didn't run away as she imagined she might when she saw such things in the telenovelas. "The first time she had been so surprised she didn't cry out or try to defend herself. Woman Hollering Creek confirms Sandra Cisneros's stature as a writer of electrifying talent-and hearing the stories in the author's own voice makes this audio even more poignant. From a young girl revealing secrets to a witch woman circling above the village on a predawn flight, the women in these stories offer pure discovery.
And what makes this particularly special audio is hearing the poems recited in the author's own voice.įrom the author of the widely acclaimed The House on Mango Street comes a story collection whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border.
With a multiplicity of moods tumbling through its lines-joyous and introspective, tender and ruthless, self mocking and sincere, often funny and sometimes wild and ruse-Loose Woman offers intoxicating poems of extraordinary insight and vivid imagining. They are bound together by the voice of one woman, whose language spands cultures and continents. These poems offer narratives as formally elegant as they are emotional and accessible. Seductive, earthy, and at times confessional, Sandra Cisneros's vibrant collection of poetry celebrates the females aspects of love-from the reflective to the overtly erotic-in a voice recognizable from her powerful works of fiction.
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