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050	0	0	_aPS3568.O34879 _bC66 1991
082	0	0	_a811.54 ROD
100	1		_aRodriguez, Luis J. _d, 1954-
245	1	4	_aThe concrete river _c/ by Luis J. Rodriguez
250			_a1st ed
260			_aWillimantic, CT _b: Curbstone Press ; _aEast Haven, CT _b: Distributed by InBook _c, 1991.
300			_a125 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThese 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.
650		0	_aMexican American Poetry
942			_cMO
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