List of Figures List of Contributors Foreword: The Alchemy and Shape-Shifting Art of Luis J. Rodríguez John Densmore Preface: Mi Compa Luis: The Legacy of an East LA Literary Soldado del Movimiento and Beyond Roberto Cintli Rodríguez Acknowledgments Introduction: Recovering and Assessing the Life and Work of a Barrio Organic Intellectual Josephine Metcalf and Ben V. Olguí n Part I. Critical Analysis Chicanx Revolutionary Literary and Testimonial Praxis 1. Poetry to Break Stone: Zones of Abandonment, Barrio Youth Struggles and Luis J. Rodriguez''s Accompañamiento Poetics of Solidarity Jonathan D. Gomez 2. (Un-)Doing Communism: The Politics of Work in Music of the Mill Horst Tonn 3.
Luis J. Rodríguez and Chicano Testimonial Discourse Ben V. Olguín Chicanx Revolutionary Praxis 4. Luis and I and the Emerging Revolutionaries of the 1970s: Personal Reflections Laura Cortez Garcia 5. Personal Reflections on Intersecting Struggles with Comrade Luis J. Rodríguez: Interviews with Richard Bray, Vicki Capalbo and Carlos Rodríguez Sheilah Garland-Olaniran and Lenny Brody 6. Moments in the Political Journey of Luis J. Rodríguez: Recollections and Reflections of a Lifelong Comrade Anthony D.
Prince 7. Soldier of Change: Barrio Intellectual, the Poetics of Nemachtilli and the ''Language of Real Life'' in Luis J. Rodríguez''s Life and Work Jose Prado Critical Gender and Sexuality Studies 8. Life with Louie: a Testimonio on Revolutionary Love Trini Rodríguez 9. Becoming a ''New Man'': Evolving Notions of Chicano Masculinity in Luis J. Rodríguez''s The Republic of East LA Amaia Ibarrarán-Bigalondo 10. Critical Masculinity is Hard Hard Hard Work: A Tale of Recovery and Friendship Tale Between a Midwestern Gay Male and Mexican American Former Gang Member Brian Gleason Part II. Public Intellectual Prison and Public Intellectual Work 11.
The Spirit Joseph Bathanti 12. ''Fixing your geography'': Journey''s in Luis J. Rodríguez''s Los Angeles Garth Cartwright 13. ''How can you imprison a poem?'': Luis J. Rodríguez and Prison Writing Workshops in the US Josephine Metcalf 14. Scripting Latinx Values: Luis J. Rodríguez as Small Screen Consultant Emma Horrex New Perspectives on Luis J. Rodríguez 15.
Re-Encountering Rodríguez: It Calls You Back and Draws You In - the Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez Josephine Metcalf 16. Red Road Traveller: The Xicanx Humanism of Luis ''Mixcoatl Itzlacuiloh'' Rodríguez Natalia M. Toscano and Kristian E. Vasquez 17. Towards a Xicanx Communist Synthesis of the Organic Intellectual: Luis J. Rodriguez''s Revolutionary Lumpen/Proletarian Gnosis and Praxis Ben V. Olguín 18.
Luis J. Rodríguez''s Always Running and the Political Economy of Gang Memoir: From Multiculturalism to Historical Materialist Mapping of Youth Gang Life Clint Terrell 19. Blazed with Poetry: The Political Language of Luis J. Rodríguez Rafael Pérez-Torres Part III. Literary and Pedagogical Legacies Pedagogical Interventions, Awards and Audiences 20. Breaking Isolation: Prizes, Community and the Work of Luis J. Rodríguez Laura A. Wright 21.
''The poem creates the feeling to be right there'': Luis J. Rodríguez, Nemachtilli and the German High School Curriculum Steffen Brand, Nicolas McGuinn and Amanda Naylor 22. Reading America and Reading Rodríguez: Exploring American Literature at an English Prison Book Group Josephine Metcalf and Laura Skinner 23. Finding América : Luis J. Rodríguez, Latinx Children''s Literature and the Nurturing Power of Self Recognition Christina Gómez Artists'' Reflections 24. From East LA to Milan: Connecting Dots and Possibilities FLYCAT 25. Counting with Stories: Luis J. Rodríguez''s Always Running as Testimonio and Praxis Leticia Hernández-Linares 26.
''My Name is not Russ Litten'' Russ Litten 27. ''A Poetic Stick Up'' Jonathan D. Gomez Part IV. Interviews and New Works Interviews 28. From Archives and Always Running to Prizes and Poetry: Re-Interviewing Luis J. Rodríguez Josephine Metcalf 29. Chicago and the National Poetry Movement: The Emergence of Luis J. Rodríguez, Tía Chucha Press and the Guild Complex Michael Warr 30.
Reflections from Havana: A Dialogue with Luis J. Rodríguez on Art and Revolution Ben V. Olguín New Works by Luis J. Rodríguez 31. To Live and Die in Central America: My Freelance Journalism of the 1980s 32. My Development as a Revolutionary Thinker, Organiser and Creator 33. Travelling for Knowledge and Freedom Part V. Afterword and Resources Afterword: Testimonio es Atole es Medicina Robert Farid Karimi Timeline: Critical Moments in Luis J.
Rodríguez''s Personal, Political and Literary Life Selected Bibliography of Luis J. Rodríguez''s Literary Works Index.