![]() Her father decided going to college was a way for her to find a good husband. ![]() The title essay recounts her early days of living and writing in Bucktown, 'a down-at-the-heels' neighborhood of Chicago, where Nelson Algren once roamed and not far from Saul Bellow territory. She recalls an exhilarating time of learning and discovering how to be a writer, how to live alone, how to trust your own voice, how to teach students who 'have to defend themselves from someone beating them up' to write poetry. Komik tiger wong bahasa indonesia lengkap how to# She goes to literary soirees, changes jobs, meets other writers and poets of color. Her father finally understands she can provide for herself by writing. After leaving her hometown behind, she writes 'I no longer make Chicago my home, but Chicago will still makes its home in me.' 'No Place Like Home,' written in 2014 for the Thomas Wolfe Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives a nod to the organic nature of this thing we call home. 'My writing is my home, now,' said Wolfe. 'We find ourselves at home, or homing in books that allow us to become more ourselves,' writes Cisneros. People, books, education and experiences influence and broaden her worldview, but also bring bittersweet loss. ![]()
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