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about luis J. rodriguez. luis J. rodriguez is an awardwinning writerwith eight books published in poetry, children's literature
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Extractions: Has human civilization ever been good at sharing? Always. We did it with far lesser resources or technological tools. We do so today. There are built-in social compacts that keep us from truly losing it even as many of our leaders, the truly powerful and greedy, run roughshod through the economic, political, social, and moral constraints binding on the rest of us. We still have strong impulses to something ancestral and primordial, collective and even genetic, to put others before ourselves, to — as Jesus and most great thinkers and prophets have emphasized over the ages — "treat others as you would like to be treated."
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Always Running; Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.; Paperback
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Always Running; Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.; Hardback; Book
Always Running Author rodriguez, luis J. Hardback; Book 260 pages Published May1995 Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd ISBN 0714529915 This item nonreturnable.
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UCRP: Luis J. Rodriguez
luis J. rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the countrywith eight nationally published books in memoir, children's literature and
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Extractions: University Theater Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the country with eight nationally published books in memoir, children's literature and poetry. His poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and "Foreword" magazine's Silver Book Award, among others. Luis Rodriguez's most recent books are Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times (Seven Stories Press) and a short story collection, The Republic of East LA : Stories (HarperCollins). Rodriguez is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. An international best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. Written as a cautionary tale for his then 15-year-old son Ramiro-who had joined a Chicago gang-the memoir is popular among youth and teachers. Despite this, the American Library Association in 1999 called Always Running one of the ten most censored books in the United States.
-= Always Running - Chapter 8 By Luis J. Rodriguez
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Extractions: intro from the book: Always Running is the account of Luis J. Rodriguez's growing up in poverty in Los Angeles and his ultimate turning to gang life as a means of preservation. The book chronicles his encounters with racism in school and on the streets, and his struggle to overcome prejudice, drugs, and violence. "And if they murder, it's usually the ones who look like them, the ones closest to who they arethe mirror reflection. THey murder and they're killing themselves, over and over." With these words Luis J. Rodriguez expresses the devastation of life in the inner cities. Rodriguez began Always Running when he was 16, finding solace in the words that spilled out of him. However, he was not motivated to complete it until his own son, Ramiro, joined a gang in Chicago, where they now live. Always Running became for Rodriguez a way to offer the kind of mentoring he never received as a youth. It is a tale of survival, presenting a picture of the futility of gang warfare while providing understanding and hope.
-= Always Running - Chapter 10 By Luis J. Rodriguez
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Extractions: "You see Lomas is so tiny, nameless, it doesn't even warrant a dot," Chente explained. "The vatos defend a land which doesn't even belong to them. All the death for what?" I thought about the globe: Chente was right. A bigger world awaited me. But I also knew: Once you're in Las Lomas, you never get out unless you're dead. Alone at a bus stop in the first hours of a day, I wrapped myself in a long, black trench coat no longer used for jambas or jales . " !Que jodida! it's cold," I stammered out loud, to no one in particular. Trucks rumbled by and an occasional lowrider, sweet salsa sounds radiating from outside speakers; I jumped to the beat inside the trench coat as a breeze played havoc with my insides.
People's Tribune 04-01 Presenting Luis J. Rodriguez
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Extractions: Available for bookings for "Hispanic Heritage Month 2001" (mid-September to mid-October) or Cinco de Mayo in May, 2002. Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Latino writers in the country with six nationally published books in memoir, children's literature and poetry. Luis is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." An international best seller, the memoir also garnered a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Chicago Sun-Times Book Award, and was designated a New York Times Notable Book. Written as a cautionary tale for Luis' then 15-year-old son Ramiro who had joined a Chicago gang the memoir is popular among youth and teachers. Despite this, the American Library Association in 1999 called "Always Running" one of the ten most-censored books in the United States. Efforts to remove his books from public-school libraries and reading lists have occurred in Illinois, Michigan, Texas, and more recently in California, where the battles were quite heated. Yet for all the controversy, Luis has gained the respect of the literary community. In addition to the above honors, he has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a National Association for Poetry Therapy Public Service Award, an Illinois Author of the Year Award, and several Illinois Arts Council fellowships.
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HEARTS AND HANDS Creating Community in Violent Times By luis J. rodriguez. Lostcauses, affirms luis J. rodriguez in Hearts and Hands, are.
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Extractions: Sunday, December 23, 2001 L.A. Times When Rage Becomes Poetry HEARTS AND HANDS Creating Community in Violent Times By Luis J. Rodriguez Seven Stories Press: 368 pp., $24.95 ARTISTS IN TROUBLE New Stories By Aram Saroyan Black Sparrow Press: 238 pp., $30 cloth; $16.50 paper By JONATHAN KIRSCH "Lost causes," affirms Luis J. Rodriguez in "Hearts and Hands," "are the only ones worth fighting for." The cause that Rodriguez finds so compelling begins with what he calls "a cultural malaise of isolation and meaninglessness." The real victims of that malaise, he insists, are the young people of America. And their anomie is expressed in acts of seemingly senseless violence, not only in the barrio and urban areas but in the suburbs of Littleton, Colo., and Santee, Calif., too. "It's time," he insists in "Hearts and Hands," "to make sense of the senselessness." Rodriguez is a poet, a publisher and a pundit, among other things, but he is best known for his memoir of growing up on the mean streets of Los Angeles, "Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A."
The Republic Of East LA, Luis J. Rodriguez - HarperCollins
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Extractions: Paperback From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. It is a life brimming with hope and vitality, the depiction of which reaffirms Luis J. Rodriguez as not only one of America's keenest urbanists but as a writer with a perfect blend of humanist empathy and poetic soul. Behind this famed enclave's notorious gang violence its well-documented and stereotyped poverty rates, and the supposed desperation of those who live in East L.A. without any hope of escape, lies one resounding element: real people, with real strength, in very real predicaments. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver in his late twenties whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage band in "My Ride, My Revolution," or the monologue-styled rant of a tes-ti-fy-ing!
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Always Running LA Vida Loca Gang Days in LA by luis J. RodriguezOur price $10.40 Release Date February, 1994. The Republic
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Bookselling This Week: Author Luis J. Rodriguez Opens Community
Author luis J. rodriguez Opens Community Bookstore in LA. January 08, 2002. Bookssaved my life, said author luis J. rodriguez in a recent interview.
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Extractions: Bookstore in L.A. January 08, 2002 "Books saved my life," said author Luis J. Rodriguez in a recent interview. The 47-year-old author is a former Los Angeles gang member whose love and talent for poetry and prose convinced a judge to give Rodriguez a crucial break 26 years ago when he placed him, not back in prison, but on the road to a writer's life. Eventually a newspaper job took Rodriguez to Chicago. There, he started his own poetry publishing house and wrote the award-winning 1994 memoir, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (Touchstone Books). In 2000, Rodriguez and his L.A.-born wife moved back to Southern California to live near her family in the San Fernando Valley. But the author found something crucial missing there. "As soon as we came out here," said Rodriguez, "people were expressing that in this part of the Valleythis is the northern most section, which has some 400,000 people, 80 percent Latino populationthere were no bookstores, no movie houses, no real culture centers." Even in the very poor community where he'd lived in Chicago, Rodriguez said, "We still had places where people could do poetry and music and go to workshops. I thought it was strange that in the entertainment capital of the world, there was a whole community here that didn't have anything like that.
Author Luis J. Rodriguez Opens Community
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Loca Gang Days in LA. By age twelve, luis rodriguez was a veteranof East LA gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang
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Extractions: Always Running: LA Vida Loca - Gang Days in L.A. By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts of street crime claimed friends and family members. Before long Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words, and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning Chicano poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
Luis J. Rodriguez - Video / The Valley Library - Oregon State University
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Extractions: Information Services - Oregon State University Luis J. Rodriguez is a poet, journalist and publisher who grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. His writings give voice and dignity to those whose lives are scarred by violence, racism and poverty. Mr. Rodriguez reads from his books of poetry, The Concrete River and Poems Across the Pavement , and from his memoirs, Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. He read on December 8, 1992, in Los Angeles and talked with Michael Silverblatt. osu.orst.edu Revised January 1998
Luis J. Rodriguez: Cloth Of Muscle And Hair
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Extractions: Maria Trinidad Rodriguez trini@tiachucha.com Maria, known as "Trini," is a long-time resident of the Northeast San Fernando Valley, having grown up in Pacoima and graduated from San Fernando High School, and California State University, Northridge. She became a reading specialist and bilingual teacher, having taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District for around eight years. In 1983, she moved to Chicago to work as an editor and writer for the Tribuno del Pueblo. She later served as a court interpreter. In 1988, she married Luis J. Rodriguez. Soon after she helped organize and manage his writing and lecturing work. In late June 2002, Trini, Luis, and their two sons, Ruben and Luis, returned to the Northeast San Fernando Valley, where in February of 2001 they bought a house in the city of San Fernando. Enrique Sanchez enrique@tiachucha.com

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