Loose women sandra6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Will no one, she asks, create lingerie “for women of exuberance”? So, she does herself:Īnd nipples capped with silver aureoles. A cruel aesthetics.” These are garments meant to exile lonely female souls “to the Siberia of celibacy.” ![]() She is writing about herself and other women “who have squash-/blossomed into soft flesh,” women whose once lacy undergarments have been replaced by “feed sacks and ace/bandage straps. Do not go into that good night wearing sensible white or beige.” In a playful jumping off from Dylan Thomas’s 1938 poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” Cisneros writes in “Canto for Women of a Certain Llanto” that she’d rather go without underwear than put on ugly stuff made for women of a certain age: “Rage, rage. She thumbs her nose at her prudish Catholic upbringing and, lovingly, at her prudish Catholic mother. She laughs at the frenetic lusts and couplings of youth - at broken hearts and confusions. In her new book of poetry Woman without Shame, Sandra Cisneros looks aging in the face and laughs. ![]()
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