SOURCE: Muske, Carol. “Breaking Out of the Genre Ghetto.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 20, no. 1-2 (fall 1995): 409-11, 417-23.
In the following essay, Muske celebrates Cisneros for resisting the constraints of genre by writing poems that speak naturally and prose that sings.
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