My Wicked Wicked Ways

From much-beloved, bestselling author Sandra Cisneros comes a vibrantly beautiful collection of poems. First published in 1987, in My Wicked Wicked Ways Cisneros embraces her first passion—verse—in poems remarkable for their plainspoken radiance. In lines both comic and sad, the author of The House on Mango Street deftly—and dazzlingly—explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways shows the acclaimed author in an entirely new light, and for readers everywhere, here is a showcase of one of our most powerful writers at her lyrical best.

“Not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review

“All poets would do well to follow the example of Sandra Cisneros, who takes no prisoners and has not made a single compromise in her language.” —Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times
 
“Cisneros is a writer for all people.” —USA Today

“Here the young voice of Esperanza of The House on Mango Street merges with that of the grown woman/poet. My Wicked Wicked Ways is a kind of international graffiti, where the poet—bold and insistent—puts her mark on those traveled places on the map and in the heart.” —Cherríe Moraga
 
“A writer of power and eloquence and great lyrical beauty.” —The Washington Post Book World
 
“[Cisneros’] work is sensitive, alert, nuanceful. It is rich with music and picture.” — Gwendolyn Brooks