by Lori Marie Carlson (Editor) , Oscar Hijuelos (Introduction by)
Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life.
Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory—and pain—of being Latino American.
Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such as Sandra Cisneros, Martín Espada, Gary Soto, and Ed Vega, and a very personal introduction by Oscar Hijuelos, this collection encompasses the voices of Latino America. By selecting poems about the experiences of teenagers, Carlson has given a focus to that rich diversity; by presenting the poems both in their original language and in translation, she has made them available to us all.
As you move from memories of red wagons to dreams of orange trees to fights with street gangs, you feel Cool Salsa's musical and emotional cross rhythms. Here is a world of exciting poetry for you, y tú también.
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States
Lorie Marie Carlson's previous bilingual poetry collection, Cool Salsa, was one of the most honored books of 1994. She also edited American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults (Holt). She lives in New York City.
Oscar Hijuelos was born of Cuban parentage in New York in 1951 and graduated from City College. His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1985. In 1990 he became the first Hispanic writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. . He wrote eight novels which, have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He passed away in 2013.ISBN: 9781250016782
Publisher: Square Fish
Binding: Paperback
Language(s): Spanish
Copyright Date: 2013
Pub Date: March 19, 2013Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Pages: 160
-Children's poetry, American
-American poetry
-Hispanic American authors-Hispanic American poetry (Spanish)
-Hispanic American (Spanish-Hispanic American childre