Rodriguez, Luis J.  , 1954- <br/><br/>
The concrete river 
/ by Luis J. Rodriguez 
 - 1st ed 
 - Willimantic, CT  East Haven, CT  : Curbstone Press ;  : Distributed by InBook  , 1991. 
 - 125 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0915306425 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90056217 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mexican American Poetry
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3568.O34879  / C66 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811.54 ROD