My Nature Is Hunger New and Selected Poems, 1989 2004

Name: My Nature Is Hunger New and Selected Poems, 1989 2004
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ISBN: 9781931896245

ISBN-10: 1931896240

ISBN-13: 9781931896245

Edition: 2005

Authors: Luis J. Rodrï¿½guez, Luis J. Rodrï¿½guez

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"This poetry is of the barrio yet stubbornly refuses to be confined in it-Rodr??guez's perceptive gaze and storyteller's gift transport his world across neighborhood boundaries."-"Publishers Weekly" on "Trochemoche" "While filled with the heart and words of Chicano culture, Rodr??guez's poems transcend the scope of race and ethnicity. The topics he addresses in this book-relationships, justice, love, and the irony of daily life-are, or should be, the subjects that envelop us all. It is this universality, cloaked in the specific encounters of his life that make his writing as gripping to readers living in inner-city America as to those living in small-town USA."-"Sojourners" on…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



from Poems Across the Pavement - 1989


Running to America


Somebody Was Breaking Windows


Rosalie has Candles


The Monster


Palmas


Piece by Piece


The Calling


from The Concrete River - 1991


Watts Bleeds


Tia Chucha


Night Dance-Watts 1975-78


The Concrete River


The Rooster Who Thought It Was a Dog


Black Mexican


The Bull's Eye Inn


Waiting


Don't Read That Poem!


Jarocho Blues


Jesus Saves


The Blast Furnace


They Come To Dance


Carrying My Tools


Bethlehem No More


Every Road


Every Breath, a Prayer


Lips


from Trochemoche - 1998


Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park


Victory, Victoria, My Beautiful Whisper


Catacombs


To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger"


A Tale of Los Lobos


Woman on the First Street Bridge


The Rabbi and the Cholo


Cinco de Mayo


Civilization


Fire


Red Screams


A Fence of Lights


Next Generation


At Quenchers Bar When You Said Goodbye


The Face on the Radio


The Object of Intent Is To Get There


Untouched


A Father's Lesson


Francisca


Suburbia


Believe me when I say...


Reflection on El Train Glass


The Quiet Woman


Questions for Which You Are Always the Answer


"Eva sitting on the curb with pen and paper before the torturers came to get her"


Seguro Que Hell Yes!


Poem for Shakespeare & Company


Yo Voy Ami!


Rant, Rave & Ricochet


Cloth of Muscle and Hair


The Old Woman of Merida


from Notes of a Bald Cricket


New Poems


My Name's Not Rodriguez


Coal-Seller in White Dress


The Cockroaches I Married


Mickey Mouse Pancakes


My Nature Is Hunger


Exiled in the Country of Reason


Passersby


Listening to Return To Forever's "Romantic Warrior" with Susana in an Empty Room of my Recently Rented Echo Park Apartment


Mother by the Lake


Suicide Sweet


Sometimes a Man Comes


Time and Nature


Loving What You Leave


Ritchie Valens Doesn't Sing Here Anymore


Mexika Science


The Gold Beneath Our Feet


Banned


Fat


The Chuskas-Navajo Land 1998


Rez Dogs


Untitled


Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!


Chuparosa (Hummingbird)


Existence


Nightfall: Poems to Ponder in War and Uncertainty


The Wanton Life