Cisneros has attracted more attention for her novel The House on Mango Street and her short-story collection Woman Hollering Creek (1991) than for her poetry, which has been largely ignored by academic critics. A Publishers Weekly reviewer notes similarities between the poems in Loose Woman and Cisneros's coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street: "We meet again a powerful, fiercely independent woman of Mexican heritage." The reviewer concludes, however, the poems cannot match the "depth, the complexity and the lyrical magic" of Cisneros's novels and short.....
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