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La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide....
Poems by a former gang member and industrial worker; writings about life on the streets in Los Angeles and Chicago....
An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Shares the author's story of his brushes with the law and addictions to heroin and alcohol, tracing his complicated journey toward a recovery marked b...
Poems
DIVDIVPoems of the barrio and of the Americas beyond/divDIV /divDIVSpanish for “helter-skelter,” Trochemoche begins by conjuring life in the barri...
Creating Community in Violent Times
Both a memoir of a life in a street gang and a manifesto to stop the violence and restore the community, this approach to a solution includes real-lif...
Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodrí...
Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer
Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile clim...
Stories
From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capt...
Presents a collection of poems with such themes as homelessness, unemployment, and the struggle of the working class....
A Novel
In a stunning literary achievement -- with a power and scope reminiscent of John Steinbeck -- Luis J. Rodriguez captures the soul of a community in th...
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New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
Foreword by Martín Espada This chapbook collection offers new poems from the prolific career of a community leader, activist, and healer. Luis J. Rod...
New & Selected Poems, 1989-2004
Award-winning Latino author Luis J. Rodríguez stuns with My Nature is Hunger. The collection features 26 new poems that reflect Rodríguez's increasi...
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Poems by the Girls of Our Little Roses, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Over twenty-five years ago two Americans, Dr. Diana Frade and her husband, Episcopalian Bishop Leo Frade, founded Our Little Roses Home for Girls in S...