Sandra Cisneros, Author, Julie Grau, Editor Random House (NY) $20.5 (165p) ISBN 978-0-394-57654-1 Ranging from prose lyrics of less than a page to much lengthier (but still lyrical) fictions ...

New York’s Glimmerglass Festival will stage the opera, which is based on Cisneros' 1984 novel and inspired by her childhood ...