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Old Maids

•    Old Maids   My cousins and I,    we don't
  marry.   We're too old   by Mexican
  standards.   And the relatives    have long
  suspected   we can't anymore   in white.  
• My cousins and I,   we're all old   maids at
  thirty.   Who won't dress children,   and never
  saints--   though we undress them.   The
  aunts,   they've given up on us.   No longer
  nudge--You're next.   Instead--   What happened
  in your childhood?     What left you all mean
  teens?     Who hurt you, honey?   But we've
  studied   marriages too long--   Aunt Ariadne,  
  Tia Vashti,   Comadre Penelope,   erida
  Malintzin,   Senora Pumpkin Shell--   lessons
  that served us well.                          
         

• Sandra Cisneros
• was born in Chicago Illinois, in 1954. She and
  her six brother grew up in Mexico and Chicago.
• She earned a B. A .in English from Loyola
  University.
• books of poetry include Old Maids. Bad Boys,
  and others.
• The House on Mango street book won the American
  book award in 1985.
• Cisneros has taught many colleges and
  universities, including the University of
  California, Michigan, and of New Mexico.
• She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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Federico Garcia Lorca

• Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
•   Never let me lose the marvel of your
  statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary
  rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.
•   I am afraid of being, on this shore, a
  branchless trunk, and what I most regret is
  having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of
  my despair.
•   If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my
  cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you
  alone my master,
•   never let me lose what I have gained, and
  adorn the branches of your river with leaves of
  my estranged Autumn.

• Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain,
  June 5,1898 died near Granada, August 19,1936,
  García Lorca is Spain's most deeply appreciated
  and highly revered poet and dramatist His murder
  by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish
  civil war brought sudden international fame,
  accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric
  which led a later generation to question his
  merits

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Octavio Paz

• Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. On
  his father's side, his grandfather was a
  prominent liberal intellectual and one of the
  first authors to write a novel with an expressly
  Indian theme.
• Paz began to write at an early age, and in 1937,
  he travelled to Valencia, Spain, to participate
  in the Second International Congress of
  Anti-Fascist Writers.

In 1ellowship where he became immersed in
Anglo-American Modernist poetry
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Hispanic poetry