![]() That same year, Cisneros met Norma Alarcón, a PhD student, at the Midwest Latina Writers’ Workshop. In 1980, Mango Publications issued Cisneros’s chapbook Bad Boys, a slim poetry volume that examines the lives inside a Chicago working-class neighborhood-a precursor to her classic novel The House on Mango Street (1984). ![]() Cisneros’s travels show up in her first full-length collection, 1987’s My Wicked, Wicked Ways: “Women fled./ Tired of the myth/they had to live.” These lines resonate with what she later called an “escape route” from patriarchy and the cultural legacy of her gender. Instead, she left to study poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and in her twenties, thanks to arts grants, sojourned in Europe. At that time, in the fifties and sixties, cultural prescriptions dictated she remain in the household until she became a wife and mother. To understand Sandra Cisneros’s poetry, it is important to know that she grew up the only daughter among the seven children of a Mexican father and Mexican American mother. ![]()
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