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Luis Rodriguez

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Official Poet Laureate of Los Angeles; Poet novelist journalist critic and columnist.

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Luis Rodriguez saw his own way out of poverty and despair in the barrio of East LA and successfully broke free from the years of violence and desperation he spent as an active gang member. 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 himself.

Always Running earned a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and was designated a New York Times Notable Book; it has also been named by the American Library Association as one of the nation's 100 most censored books.

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