The Concrete River

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Review: "Luis J. Rodríguez, an important new voice, writes of the barrio, the steel mills and gangs...In his bag of tools, his words, Rodríguez knows just which to use to chisel well-sculpted poetry. His is the gift of sharing." --Sara Sanderson, The Indianapolis News

"...the poems in this volume...have a brutal yet shimmering intensity that registers the poignant humor and pathos of many Chicanos' lives." --Anne C. Bromley, American Book Review

"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