Poems Across the Pavement - Softcover

Rodriguez, Luis J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962428701 ISBN 13: 9780962428708

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 since published more than fifty poetry collections of quality cross-cultural U.S. poets, as well as anthologies, chapbooks, and a CD. Tia Chucha Press is now a project of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, which Rodriguez helped create in 2001 with his wife Trini. We are honoured to announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of Poems Across the Pavement close to twenty poems of an emerging poet that began a prolific writing career.

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Review:

"[Rodriguez's poems] are full of ethnic passion and political fervor, and are witty and imaginative as well." --Hayden Carruth

"[Rodriguez is] the poet laureate of the barrio."

--Luis R. Torres, "Los Angeles Times"

"Tia Chucha books, man, they fly from the hands to the eye. Here is beauty on and between the covers, truth that shakes hands with you. Luis Rodriguez is the future, and his books are the map you follow to get there." --Bob Holman

[Rodriguez s poems] are full of ethnic passion and political fervor, and are witty and imaginative as well. Hayden Carruth"

[Rodriguez is] the poet laureate of the barrio.

Luis R. Torres, "Los Angeles Times""

Tia Chucha books, man, they fly from the hands to the eye. Here is beauty on and between the covers, truth that shakes hands with you. Luis Rodriguez is the future, and his books are the map you follow to get there. Bob Holman"

About the Author:

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 Reader's 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. His latest book is It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0962428701
• ISBN 13: 9780962428708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42