<div><B>The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: &ldquo;Fierce, and fearless&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence&mdash;one that revolved around drugs, gang wars, and police brutality. But unlike most of those around him, Rodr&iacute;guez found a way out when art, writing, and political activism gave him a new path&mdash;and an escape from self-destruction.<BR />  <BR /><I>Always Running</I> spares no detail in its vivid, brutally honest portrayal of street life and violence, and it stands as a powerful and unforgettable testimonial of gang life by one of the most acclaimed Chicano writers of his generation.<BR />  <BR /><I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I></div>

Always Running

<div><b>Poems of the barrio and of the Americas beyond</b><b> </b>Spanish for &ldquo;helter-skelter,&rdquo; <i>Trochemoche</i> begins by conjuring life in the barrio, whether in a slum in a Texas border town or in L.A., the vast, hectic, desperate California metropolis where Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez grew up. For Rodr&iacute;guez, only art offered deliverance from the despair of gang violence and poverty, and these poems stand as prayers for transcendence, recorded long after Rodr&iacute;guez escaped his violent past and began to explore the wider world. Here Rodr&iacute;guez offers not only songs of the American dream, but a dream of the Americas, a place that invites a pell-mell, sometimes violent, collision of cultures, human impulses, and natural forces. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Trochemoche

<div><b>A mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of life</b><i>The Concrete River</i>&rsquo;s poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodr&iacute;guez sings <i>corridos</i> of barrios and busted Chicanos trying to make it in L.A. and Chicago, from ballads of Watts&rsquo;s broken glass to blues played alongside a tequila bottle under an elevated train. But the music also captures moments of true beauty amid the hard urban surfaces, where the cries of the &rsquo;hood &ldquo;deliver sacrifices / of sound and flesh, / as a mother&rsquo;s milk flows,&rdquo; while love and community offer renewed hope. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Concrete River

<div><b>The collected poems of one of America&rsquo;s foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreams</b><b> </b>Over his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. <i>My Nature Is Hunger</i> represents the best of his lyrical work during his most prolific period as a poet, a time when he carefully documented the rarely heard voices of immigrants and the poor living on society&rsquo;s margins. For Rodr&iacute;guez&rsquo;s subjects, the city is all-consuming, devouring lives, hopes, and the dreams of its citizens even as it flourishes with possibility. &ldquo;Out of my severed body / the world has bloomed,&rdquo; and out of Rodr&iacute;guez&rsquo;s stirring vision, so has beauty. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodr&iacute;guez including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Luis J. Rodríguez

Books By Luis J. Rodríguez (4 Books)

Always Running

Trochemoche

The Concrete River

My Nature Is Hunger

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Luis J. Rodríguez

Books By Luis J. Rodríguez (4 Books)

Always Running

Trochemoche

The Concrete River

My Nature Is Hunger

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