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Gr 8-Up As she did in "Cool Salsa" (Holt, 1994), Carlson assembles another impressive forum of poetic voices. In Spanish and English, the poets speak eloquently of themselves, how and where they live, their families, and their dreams for the future. Many of them are quite well known and a number were included in the earlier book: Gary Soto, Gina Valdé s, Martí n Espada, and Luis J. Rodrí guez, among others. In this volume, Carlson has added a few poems by students in the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this follow-up to Cool Salsa (rev. 11/94), Carlson notes that while much about Latino-American life has changed in ten years, much remains the same, a fact reflected in these poems. In Gary Soto's "Spanish," the narrator says "Spanish is seeing double. / The world is twice the size"; in "I Am Who I Am, So What," Raquel Valle Senties writes, "I'm a grafted flower that didn't / take,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More