![]() ![]() ![]() She speaks for, and calls out to, women who love themselves enough to love, both soulfully and bodily, men who are brave enough to love back. In short, Cisneros puts feminism in a black lace bra and velvet spikes. The woman speaking these poems, presumably Cisneros herself, wants "to be taken over the threshold and over/the knee." She wants to be "lullabied and crooned to" but also wants "Your body./My body.Ours/ swallowing each other/whole." In "Loose Woman," poet Sandra Cisneros dares to make no distinction between the two emotions. It has been said - far too often - that women love and men lust. "Loose Woman" by Sandra Cisneros Knopf, $16. ![]()
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