![]() ![]() ![]() Typical of this spirit is the poem, "You Like to Give and Watch Me My Pleasure." The speaker tells her lover: "Take for the taking what is yours." She urges him, "Descend like rain,/ destroy like fire/ if you choose to." She in return might "rise like a huracan" or "erupt as sudden as/ a coup d'etat of trumpets,/ the sleepless eye of ocean,/ a sky of black urracas." This is a woman unafraid to abandon herself to lusty love, to loving lust. 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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