A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who"
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Abuelito Who
Sandra Cisneros
1987
Introduction
Abuelito Who
is a work of free verse by poet, story writer, novelist, and essayist Sandra Cisneros, a groundbreaking figure in Mexican American literature. Her acclaimed debut novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), brought modern American barrio life into literary focus, and her poems and essays have revealed her to be a self-assured and outspoken proponent of women's voices and rights.
One of Cisneros's more outspoken texts is My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987), a volume of poetry expanding on her master's thesis from the University of Iowa's prestigious writing program with additional verse produced over the following decade. In the volume's verse preface, she refers to this period of her life as a time of liberation and experimentation in the art of living. Notwithstanding the wayward-minded title, the collection's poems touch on a wide variety of life experiences, ranging from the supposedly immoral to the clearly tragic to the innocently reminiscent. Abuelito Who,
contained in the collection's first section, 1200 South/2100 West,
is a poem that memorializes the poet's grandfather—in Spanish, abuelo or abuelito. With Abuelito's image conjured up by little more than a scattering of items like coins, a doorknob, and shoes, Cisneros conveys both how meaningful a relationship with a grandparent can be and how ephemeral it must prove. Abuelito Who
can also be found in Vintage Cisneros (2007).
Author Biography
Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois, to a factory worker, Elvira, and an upholsterer, Alfredo. Her mother's family was of Mexican origin, having emigrated during the long revolution of the 1910s; her grandfather's railroad labor enabled the family to settle in Chicago. Her father was born in Mexico, where he reached college but declined to apply himself to his schoolwork, earned disappointing grades, and left for the United States. Crossing the country from the South toward California, Alfredo met Elvira by chance while passing through Chicago