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18 produkter
Musica de la Aceria: A Novel
A Novel
Häftad, 2007
197 kr
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Mientras el boom cultural e industrial de la Segunda Guerra Mundial dio a luz una nueva California, surgió a su vez una poderosa industria de acero, y con ella vino el potencial de cumplir los sueños modestos de los trabajadores dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas en el calor feroz de la acería.Para …
Always Running
La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Häftad, 2005
265 kr
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The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author. Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of …
La Vida Loca (Always Running): El Testimonio de Un Pandillero En Los Angeles
Häftad, 2005
294 kr
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Borrowed Bones
New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
Häftad, 2016
170 kr
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This chapbook collection offers new poems from the prolific career of a community leader, activist, and healer. Luis J. Rodríguez’s work asks profound questions of us as readers and fellow humans, such as, ""If society cooperates, can we nurture the full / and healthy development of everyone?"" In …
Concrete River
Poems
Häftad, 1995
217 kr
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Winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, The Concrete River’s poems illuminate the gritty idiosyncrasies of immigrant life in urban barrios spanning Los Angeles to Chicago to Harlem. Luis J. Rodríguez lends powerful voices to those struggling to keep the gas on, to find work, and …
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Häftad, 2012
265 kr
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It Calls You Back
An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
E-bok, 2011
186 kr
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Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running , chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature. Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless …
Always Running
La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
E-bok, 2012
222 kr
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The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: "Fierce, and fearless" (The New York Times). Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious …
Concrete River
Poems
E-bok, 2012
30 kr
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A mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of lifeThe Concrete River''s poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodríguez …
My Nature Is Hunger
New and Selected Poems: 1989–2004
E-bok, 2012
32 kr
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The collected poems of one of America’s foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreams Over his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. My Nature Is Hunger represents the best of his …
Trochemoche
Poems
E-bok, 2012
31 kr
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Poems of the barrio and of the Americas beyond Spanish for “helter-skelter,” Trochemoche begins by conjuring life in the barrio, whether in a slum in a Texas border town or in L.A., the vast, hectic, desperate California metropolis where Luis J. Rodríguez grew up. For Rodríguez, only art offered …
Hearts and Hands, Second Edition
Creating Community in Violent Times
E-bok, 2014
223 kr
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Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects …
From Our Land to Our Land
Imaginings and Musings of a Native Xicanx Writer
E-bok, 2020
160 kr
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Essays on race, culture, and identity, Native Americans, the Latinx community, and more from the prolific writer, activist, bookseller, and LA''s poet laureate. A collection of powerful pieces on race, culture, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in …
Honor Comes Hard
Writings from California Prison System's Honor Yard
Av Northwestern University Press, Lucinda Thomas m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
185 kr
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Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States - home of the modern correctional system. In the first decade of the 21st century, this country also garnered the distinction of having more prisoners per capita than any other nation in the world. We need to hear from the …
Poems Across the Pavement
25th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2014
266 kr
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Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez's first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez has sincepublished more than fifty poetry collections of quality crosscultural U.S. poets, as well as anthologies, …
Make a Poem Cry
Creative Writing from California's Lancaster Prison
Häftad, 2020
288 kr
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Make a Poem Cry is an anthology of poems from one of California's high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodriguez, sponsored by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. Rodriguez, who is Tia Chucha Press's founding editor, and formerly incarcerated …
