“A poem is never done,” the writer Sandra Cisneros told me in July ... Without Shame,” whose poems capture her solitude, erotic longings, and life in Mexico with rich language and sharp ...

"Uncle Fat-Face's brand-new used white Cadillac, Uncle Baby's green Impala, Father's red Chevrolet station wagon"—the parade of cars that ushers in Cisneros's first novel since The House on ...