Poetry. Latino studies. SONNETS AND SALSA is Carmen Tafolla's first new collection of poems since 1992. It contains the award-winning sonnet sequence Sonnets to Human Beings and a selection of more recent work. There has been extensive critical praise for Sonnets to Human Beings: In Sonnets to Human Beings, Tafolla offers a mapping of ethnic and class spaces that goes beyond national borders and configures them on a broad global scale even while continuing to make inroads into familiar terribory with gender and ethnic discourses - Rosaura Sánchez, University of California at San Diego. These unconventional sonnets thematically cross cultures and move into questions of human survival on this earth. . . - Dr. Wolfgang Karrer, Universität Osnabrück. As one of the most anthologized Chicana writers and recipient of the 1987 National Chicano Literature Prize from the University of California at Irvine, Tafolla is recognized as one madrinas of contemporary Chicana literature and a master of poetic