Cool Salsa Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States

Name: Cool Salsa Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States
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ISBN: 9781250016782

ISBN-10: 1250016789

ISBN-13: 9781250016782

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lori Marie Carlson, Oscar Hijuelos

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Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures.Cool Salsacelebrates 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…

Book details

List price: $10.99
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.286