Rodriguez

Don't Go Gentle into That Good Expressway
 * Luis J. Rodríguez **

x Luis J. Rodríguez has been called "a superhero in Chicano literature" for his steady output of poems, fiction and above all for "Always Running," his classic 1993 memoir about jettisoning his former life as an East L.A. gangbanger.

The Dalai Lama once praised him as an "unsung hero of compassion." His old friend John Densmore, drummer for the Doors, describes him as a curandero, the term for a traditional Mexican healer who ministers to his community's wounds.