Very Good-Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark-NICE Standard-sized.

Very Good-Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark-NICE Standard-sized.

Size: 5x0x8; Softbound book in very clean crisp condition throughout. Cover differs from stock image; ours is a color illustration of a woman holding a child.

Size: 5x0x8; Softbound book in very clean crisp condition throughout. Cover differs from stock image; ours is a color illustration of a woman holding a child.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p.

**SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR** Good, solid, mild wear, unmarked text. We

**SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR** Good, solid, mild wear, unmarked text. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

"To Tanyss Luis Rodriguez". Signed copies rarely offered. "Award-winning

"To Tanyss Luis Rodriguez". Signed copies rarely offered. "Award-winning Latino author Luis J. Rodríguez stuns with My Nature is Hunger. The collection features 26 new poems that reflect Rodríguez's increasingly global view, his hard-won spirituality, and his movement toward reconciliation with his family and his past, as well as selections from his previous books, Poems Across the Pavement, The Concrete River, and Trochemoche." "Luis Javier Rodriguez (born 1954) is a poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. He was the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Rodriguez is recognized as a major figure in contemporary Chicano literature. He identified himself as a native Xicanx writer in his most recent book. His best-known work, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, among others. It has been the subject of controversy when it was included in school reading lists in California, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas, due to its frank depictions of gang life. Rodriguez has also founded or co-founded numerous organizations, including the Tía Chucha Press, which publishes the work of unknown writers, Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural, a San Fernando Valley cultural center, the LA Latino Writers Association, and the Chicago-based Youth Struggling for Survival, an organization for at-risk youth".