A review by poetloz
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States by Lori Marie Carlson, Oscar Hijuelos

5.0

I don't speak or read Spanish, so I had to fight my tendency to put this down. But when I didn't, the poems here are great. There are some pretty established poets here as well as some I haven't read. On top of that, when the poems are not hybrids of English and Spanish, you can read the English poems in Spanish and learn! To be honest, learning is why I wanted to put the book down. Who wants to do that?!