Sonnets and Salsa
by Carmen Tafolla
0-916727-10-6 Cost: $16.00
Trade Paperback , 112 pages
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The first edition of Sonnets and Salsa, published in 2001, was Carmen Tafolla's first new collection of poetry in almost a decade. Now a new edition is available, revised and expanded. Old favorites are here, such as the well known sequence, "Sonnets to Human Beings," which was awarded the poetry prize in the 1989 National Chicano Literature Contest (University of California at Irvine).
Critical Praise for Sonnets and Salsa
- Tafolla's poems have always exhibited a certain combativeness . . . squaring off in the Tex-Mex marketplaces of her home turf. But her fight has now expanded to include the male-dominated power structures of Chicano and Gringo alike. . . . Its an amazing experience to watch this poet mixing it up in any match of her choosing.
— Pat Littledog
Carmen Tafolla is a pioneer of Chicana literature and a unique Southwestern voice. Her poems and stories will teach you as much as touch your heart.
— Ana Castillo
These unconventional sonnets thematically cross cultures and move into questions of human survival on this earth.
— Dr. Wolfgang Karrer
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The first edition of Sonnets and Salsa, published in 2001, was Carmen Tafolla's first new collection of poetry in almost a decade. Now a new edition is available, revised and expanded. Old favorites are here, such as the well known sequence, "Sonnets to Human Beings," which was awarded the poetry prize in the 1989 National Chicano Literature Contest (University of California at Irvine).
About This Author
Read more about Carmen Tafolla HERE.