![]() ![]() Always Running and its sequel, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions and Healing, eighteen years later, can be labeled testimonio for detailing a Latina/o “lived” experience and fighting social injustices. ![]() His first book of poetry was published in 1989, but it was his memoir of gang life, Always Running-La Vida Loca: Gang Days in LA, released in 1993 in the aftermath of the LA riots, that garnered him mainstream literary attention. It took Rodríguez several years to extract himself from a life of crime and addiction to drugs, though all the while he was writing, painting, and being inspired by revolutionary figures. As a youth, he spent many years immersed in the street gangs of Los Angeles while concurrently partaking in community protests and mobilizations that became known as the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1954 in Mexico, his family migrated to the United States when he was young. ![]() Rodríguez is a Chicano memoirist, novelist, poet, children’s author, and activist. ![]()
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