My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Cisneros, Sandra

ISBN 10: 0679418210 / ISBN 13: 9780679418214

Published by Turtle Bay Books/Random House, New York, New York, 1992

About this Item

This copy of "My Wicked Wicked Ways" has been SIGNED by Sandra Cisneros on the title page! This was from an event at Princeton University featuring a discussion about cultural identity in conjunction with The Mango Suite Project. The poems in "My Wicked Wicked Ways" attest to Sandra Cisneros's first passion, and reveal why her stories have been praised for their precision of language and poetic descriptions. Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken, that rise like songs from the hearts of men and women. The work includes the poems from her first collection "Bad Boys" (now out of print). "My Wicked Wicked Ways" was first published in paperback in 1987. The "near fine" condition reflects a red mark close in to the top spine. Seller Inventory # 8988

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Publisher: Turtle Bay Books/Random House, New York, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition/First Printing

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Synopsis:

Hailed as "not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one" (The New York Times Book Review), Sandra Cisneros has firmly established herself as an author of electrifying talent. Here are verses, comic and sad, radiantly pure and plainspoken, that reveal why her stories have been praised for their precision and musicality of language.

About the Author:

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist and essayist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship, several honorary doctorates and national and international book awards, including Chicago’s Fifth Star Award, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the National Medal of the Arts awarded to her by President Obama in 2016. Most recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized among The Frederick Douglass 200, and was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

Her classic, coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street, has sold over six million copies, has been translated into over twenty languages, and is required reading in elementary, high school, and universities across the nation.

In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two non-profits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She is also the organizer of Los MacArturos, Latino MacArthur fellows who are community activists. Her literary papers are preserved in Texas at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. 

Sandra Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende.