Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City gifts Just because they occasionally try

Just because they occasionally try to eat their own vomit

Each poem “speaks” in its own way—to

it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology

Helpful how-tos on everything from cold water swimming to taking underwater photos are interspersed throughout the book

With lyrical interludes from ten poets

Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City gifts Just because they occasionally tryBy A. K. Sandoval Strausz The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and