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Box 16

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“Year of my near death. Austin to Chico period.” Teaching at Women’s Peace Center with students including Laura Lippman and Liliana Valenzuela. Notes for commencement speech at Latino Youth where she began writing A House on Mango Street, poetry notes for Rodrigo poems. Approximately 37 pages. Spiral bound; hearts on cover, 1987

 File — Box: 16, Folder: 8
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1987