My Nature Is Hunger: New and Selected Poems: 1989–2004

The collected poems of one of America’s foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreams Over his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J.

Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city.

My Nature Is Hunger represents the best of his lyrical work during his most prolific period as a poet, a time when he carefully documented the rarely heard voices of immigrants and the poor living on society’s margins.