Author Sandra Cisneros is this year s winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honouring writers who help foster "understanding between and among people."
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PBS Books is pleased to celebrate Women’s History Month by hosting a conversation with writer and activist Sandra Cisneros, who is the author of “Woman Without Shame.” Join us to learn about Cisneros and her phenomenal new collections of poems, hear the poet read two of her poems (English and Spanish), and more. Plus, this is a great program to attend right before Poetry Month begins in April.
ABOUT THE BOOK: “Woman Without Shame” It has been 28 years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, “Woman Without Shame” is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, “Woman Without Shame” is the culmination of her search for home in the Mexico of her ancestors
Set in San Francisco, from the 1980s to the present day, ’Quiet As They Come’ is a beautiful, brutal and humorous portrait of ordinary people caught between two cultures.