TrochemochePoems by Luis Rodriguez - Guild Complex
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Trochemoche means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodriguez?s poetry.


6/25/1998 - 6/25/1998


Trochemoche means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodriguez?s poetry.

Drawing on more than ten years of poems, Rodriguez writes powerfully and passionately about urban youth, family and the plight of neglected communities, while exploring the rich cultural roots of his Chicano ancestry. Trochemoche explores recovery and personal growth, ways of knowledge, revolution, and the power of poetry. It is a cholo stance of indigenous jazz of roots and reckoning. Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East LA./ His best-selling memoir about gang life, Always Running, won the Carl Sandburg Award. His Poems Across the Pavement (Tia Chucha Press) won the Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University, and his The Concrete River was awarded the 1991 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Poetry. Rodriguez explores the chicano experience with an unrelenting, socially conscious eye that moved Larry Weintraub of the Chicago Sun ?Times to call him a poet ?we need to hear.

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Luis Rodriguez

Tags: Literary, Rest Of The World, 1998