The poem continues with another 11/12 verses, but what I like, is that she makes no bones about the fact of her multiple lovers and secondly this poem is clever she does what all good academic feminists are doing now, which is to reverse the traditional roles of viewer and viewed. Staringly coyly at me from the motel pillows.
In this portrait of The Naked Maja by Goya I will take just a couple of verses because it's a long poem:
In the third part of her book - "Heart, My Lovely Hobo", the poems are longer and thus a little more complex and also quite descriptive, for example there is one entitled "Los Desnudos: A Triptych", which is about 3 Spanish or Mexican painters and particular works by each of them Goya, Diego Rivera and of course Frida Kahlo, - Cisneros pays homage to her fellow artists - but the poem is still about love, or rather the dangerous aspects of love. Most of Cisneros' poems are about love - it's strange because I have just left a woman from the late 12th century whose every poem was also about the vagaries and traumas of Love - Marie de France. No one is too old for love, for the pain, and its massively egocentric whims? Sometimes I felt I was a little too old to appreciate her love fantasies, or even her dependence on love and that elusive, perfect male but then I also felt jealous, perhaps re-inspired. This poem more or less reveals the age of the writer, who was born in 1954 and this collection - Loose Woman, was first published in 1994, so most of the poems are about a woman in her late 30s. Phones feature quite a lot in her poems and you certainly arrive at the sense that she is a woman, often waiting for her lover: Most in this section are in a similar vein, or mood, with a certain dry humour aimed at herself, which I think is what I like.
Of the poems in this collection, the ones I like the most come from the central section entitled "The Heart Rounds up the Usual Suspects": here is the poem of the same title:
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