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Award-winning Latino author Luis J. Rodríguez stuns with My Nature is Hunger. The collection features 26 new poems that reflect Rodríguez’s increasingly global view, his hard-won spirituality, and his movement toward reconciliation with his family and his past, as well as selections from his previous books, Poems Across the Pavement, The Concrete River, and Trochemoche.
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Luis J. Rodriguez has published fifteen books of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and nonfiction. He is best known for his 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. His awards include a Finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Paterson Poetry Prize, a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, and fellowships from the Sundance Institute, the Lannan Foundation, the City of Los Angeles, the City of Chicago, the California Arts Council, and the Illinois Arts Council, among others. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2014 chose Luis J. Rodriguez as Poet Laureate of the city. Luis is also Visiting Scholar at California State University, Northridge.
Whether he's writing fiction, essays, children's books, or poetry, Rodriguez, an activist as well as an artist and the son of Mexican immigrants, writes of the anguish and anger, determination and revelation experienced by individuals driven from one world and not welcomed in another, and those who are maligned and marginalized for their ethnicity even in the country of their birth. Following his first novel, Music of the Mill (2005), this haunting retrospective volume gathers selections from Poems across the Pavement (1989), The Concrete River (1991), and Trochemoche (1998) and presents more than two-dozen deeply affecting new poems. Beginning with a border-crossing poem, "Running to America," and ending with "The Wanton Life," a wrenching yet empowering poem to the poet's imprisoned son, this potent volume embraces the tough life of the barrio and the transcendent life of the spirit. Rodriguez also writes resoundingly of the lies and tragedy of war, the strength of women, and the beauty of the earth, and he parses the absurdities of life with knowing humor. Donna Seaman
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