FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 1995

Copyright © 1994 by Sandra Cisneros

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1994.

Some of the poems in this work were originally published in the following:

Bomb Magazine: “I’m on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For,” “Cloud,” and “Black Lace Bra Kind of Woman” • New York Times (Op/Ed section): “Little Clown, My Heart” • Stone Drum Magazine: “Why I Didn’t” • “Original Sin” and “Jumping Off Roofs” were published in Emergency Tacos, March/Abrazo Press • “Las Girlfriends” was published in Intertext/Interstice: Chicanas and Latinas on the Border, Third Woman Press • “Down There” was published in The Sexuality of Latinas, Third Woman Press.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Cisneros, Sandra.

Loose Woman/Sandra Cisneros.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-8041-5087-3

1. Women—United States—Poetry. 2. Love poetry, American.

I. Title.

PS3553.I78L66  1994

811′.54—dc20  93-35937

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