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Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Woman Without Sham

When she was a young woman from the barrio, I didn't know how to become a writer. So when I got my first NEA, I really wanted to go to Patagonia and travel back home. And that's why all of those Greek images were coming up in the poem. "I hope like Hokusai that when I'm in my 77th year, I can say, oh, if only I could live a few years more"

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