“...lyrical beauty that suddenly emerges at unpredictable moments.”— The American Poetry Review Excerpt Educator Comments    The Concrete River by Luis J. Rodríguez “This poetry is of the barrio yet stubbornly refuses to be confined in it—Rodríguez’ perceptive gaze and storyteller’s gift transport his world across neighborhood boundaries.”— Publishers Weekly (View all blurbs.) Winner of the 1991 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence in Poetry This is a magnificent collection of poetry by Luis J. Rodríguez, whose memoir Always Running about growing up Chicano in Los Angeles brought him to national prominence in the spring of 1993. Rodríguez explores the Chicano experience with the unrelenting, socially conscious eye that moved Larry Weintraub of the Chicago Sun-Times to call him a poet "we need to hear."  paperback /ISBN 978-0-915306-42-8 / $13.95 Ordering Information

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