Chicano poet and radical community & working class organizer, Rubén Rangel, delivers compact and crystalline poems written in the midst of the global pandemic.
The title poem, “American Campesino,” in four lines exposes an unsustainable system that lauds farmworkers as indispensable while shamelessly gambling with their health and lives.
Rangel delivers a curandero canto with an orchestra of Chicano and working class words to our community.
American Campesino is hope with class conscious and earth deep.