Red Hot Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson

Red Hot Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson

Red Hot Salsa is an extraordinary collection of bilingual poems from the bestselling editor of Cool Salsa

i think in spanish
i write in english

i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, mayagüez and carolina

tengo las venas aculturadas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español

--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato Laviera

Ten years after the publication of the acclaimed Cool Salsa, editor Lori Marie Carlson has brought together a stunning variety of Latino poets for a long-awaited follow-up. Established and familiar names are joined by many new young voices, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos has written the Introduction.

The poets collected here illuminate the difficulty of straddling cultures, languages, and identities. They celebrate food, family, love, and triumph. In English, Spanish, and poetic jumbles of both, they tell us who they are, where they are, and what their hopes are for the future.

Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York City in 1951 to Cuban parents. He has received numerous awards, including the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York in 1951 to Cuban parents. His five previous novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Ives' Christmas, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Our Home in the Last World, and A Simple Havana Melody (Una Sencilla Meloda Habanera) are among his other works. New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York