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The concrete river / by Luis J. Rodriguez

By:

Rodriguez, Luis J, , 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, CT : Distributed by InBook , 1991.Edition: 1st edDescription: 125 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0915306425

Subject(s):

Mexican American Poetry

DDC classification:

811.54 ROD

LOC classification:

PS3568.O34879 C66 1991

Summary: These poems are contemporary reports from the underside of American culture. They consider the homeless, the unemployed, the exploited working class, the dispossessed of the American Dream who occupy the tenements within "the miasmic draft of side-street America.'' As a former steelworker, carpenter, truck driver, and refinery worker, Rodriguez writes from the inside out, with great knowledge, passion, and compassion. His journalist background allows him to report the stories that often fail to make the front pages of the daily news. The poems and stories in this collection orbit the Chicano experience of Watts and East L.A., where "the song of our wails,/ the wails of our song,/ thundering against the sides of this city of angels/so far removed from heaven.'' Rodriguez shows us how anger can also be an expression of love.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811.54 ROD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		056239

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These poems are contemporary reports from the underside of American culture. They consider the homeless, the unemployed, the exploited working class, the dispossessed of the American Dream who occupy the tenements within "the miasmic draft of side-street America.'' As a former steelworker, carpenter, truck driver, and refinery worker, Rodriguez writes from the inside out, with great knowledge, passion, and compassion. His journalist background allows him to report the stories that often fail to make the front pages of the daily news. The poems and stories in this collection orbit the Chicano experience of Watts and East L.A., where "the song of our wails,/ the wails of our song,/ thundering against the sides of this city of angels/so far removed from heaven.'' Rodriguez shows us how anger can also be an expression of love.

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