THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2015 by Sandra Cisneros
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Arte Público Press: “I Salute the Dead (Darkness Under the Trees)” from The Sadness of Days by Luis Omar Salinas, copyright © 1987 by Arte Público Press, University of Houston. Reprinted by permission of Arte Público Press, University of Houston.
Princeton University Press: Excerpt from “Ithaka” from Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy, copyright © 1992. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press, administered by Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cisneros, Sandra. [Essays. Selections]
A house of my own : stories from my life / Sandra Cisneros.
First edition. pages cm
“This is a Borzoi book” — Verso title page.
ISBN 978-0-385-35133-1 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-385-35134-8 (eBook)
1. Cisneros, Sandra—Homes and haunts. 2. Cisneros, Sandra—Family. 3. Mexican Americans—Mexico—Biography. 4. Mexican American women authors—Biography. 5. Authors, American—20th century—Biography.
I. Title.
PS3553.178Z46 2015 813′.54—dc23 [B] 2015007520
eBook ISBN 9780385351348
Front-of-Cover photograph by Diana Solís
Back- and spine-of-Cover image:
Mingei International Museum/Art Resource, N.Y.
Cover design by Stephanie Ross
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