"A bold new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street"-- - (Baker & Taylor)

The best-selling author of The House on Mango Street presents this moving collection of songs, elegies and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as woman artist. - (Baker & Taylor)

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and GOODREADS • A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart. - (Random House, Inc.)

SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, national and international book awards, including the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: Macondo Writers and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen. - (Random House, Inc.)

Booklist Reviews

Cisneros (Martita, I Remember You, 2021) writes with irresistible intimacy, especially in her poetry. We feel confided in, teased, moved, and jolted as she explores matters earthy and spiritual. Cisneros is funny and lacerating, caring and mischievous. In this gathering of three decades of poems pithy and lush, brash and sexy, compassionate and outraged, she considers the places she's lived, family, lovers, neighbors, moments of wonder, injustices epic and personal, and the ways age can so rudely resculpt the body even while liberating the mind. Cisneros contrasts her journey-of-choice south from the U.S. to Mexico "with a truck hauling my library," to the plight of her grandparents in Mexico. "Who couldn't read, fled / North during the revolution," carrying few belongings. Everything glistens in street scenes, while nature is full of lessons offered by the "guru moon" and "inspirational ants." Cisneros seeks beauty and serenity, delighting in solitude and being happy "in bed with my love, a book." But she also offers stinging social critiques and frank and hilarious riffs on sex. This is a delectably saucy and incisive, righteous and resonant collection. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.

Library Journal Reviews

In her first collection in nearly three decades, MacArthur fellow Cisneros undergoes a journey of rebirth, considering her role as a woman artist and finding her place both within herself and in her ancestral Mexico.