#sandra cisneros
“Vas a encontrar a alguien que sea lo suficientemente valiente para amarte. Algún día. Un día. No hoy…”
— Sandra Cisneros.
In the “Other Countries” section of her now classic collection My Wicked Wicked Ways, Sandra Cisneros pens lines from Venice, Paris, Trieste, the old market in Antibes, the Greek island of Hydra in pouring rain, and Sarajevo, as below.
Peaches—Six in a Tin Bowl, Sarajevo
If peaches had armssurely they would hold one another
in their peach sleep.
And if peaches had feet
it is sure they would
nudge one another
with their soft peachy feet.
And if peaches could
they would sleep
with their dimpled head
on the other’s
each to each.
Like you and me.
And sleep and sleep.
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books I’ve read in 2022 no. 063
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
“I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe takes.”
Some Memorable Reading from 2021
Joy Williams, Breaking and Entering (1988, Vintage)
Ali Smith, Summer (2020, Hamish Hamilton)
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1983, Arte Público Press)
Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth (2021, Liveright)
Frederik Peeters, Lupus (2002-2007, Atrabile)
Vigdis Hjorth, Will and Testament (2016, Cappelen Damm)
Benji Nate, Catboy (2017, Silver Sprocket)
John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938, Stackpole Books)
Rebecca Carroll, Surviving the White Gaze (2021, Simon & Schuster)
Richard Neely, Shattered(akaThe Plastic Nightmare) (1969, Ace)
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