W R Rodriguez: 8 books

From the Banks of Brook Avenue offers a humorous, ironic, passionate, and vivid exploration of the cityscape. It was awarded First Prize for Poetry in the North Street Book Prize, a competition for self-published books which is sponsored by Winning Writers. Subways, bridges, streets, public...

W R Rodriguez explores the beauty, wonder, and harsh reality of the urban environment. He has a strong poetic voice that uses irony and humor. He treats his subjects in a variety of styles: narratives, lyrics, long poems, and prose poems. Vivid and abundant imagery abound; the reader will get a sense...

This guide is designed to help teachers use The Shoe Shine Parlor Poems et al as a classroom text. W. R. Rodriguez, who is a poet and teacher, offers an author's introduction, a vocabulary list, and several pre-reading and post-reading questions and activities for each poem.

Have you wondered goes into the creation and evolution of a poem? Every poem has a backstory, and in this book the author willingly shares it. This Annotated Edition includes all forty poems of From the Banks of Brook Avenue. After each, the author discusses the people, places, and events that inspired...

Three memoirs about The Bronx from 1922-2013. A compilation of articles written for The Bronx County Historical Society Journal.

These narrative and lyric poems derive from the author's youth in the South Bronx and his work as a bootblack in the family shoe shine parlor during the 1960s.The first section, “the shoe shine parlor poems,” contains narratives and character sketches of neighborhood personalities:...

Three books of poetry inspired by The Bronx. The entire text of: "the shoe shine parlor poems et al," "concrete pastures of the beautiful bronx," and "from the banks of brook avenue."

This is the first book of The Bronx Trilogy: three books of poetry about The Bronx and its environs. The Shoe Shine Parlor Poems Et Al: Second Edition features a preface written by the author and a bibliography. It is being released to complement the recent completion of the project, which includes: Concrete Pastures of the Beautiful Bronx and From the Banks of Brook Avenue.