Miguel Pinero
La Bodega Sold Dreams

In La Bodega Sold Dreams, the corner grocery store becomes the fantasmagoric symbol of US capitalism. Television and easy credit are carnival backers perpetually dangling the American Dream before the eyes of the poor and colonized. They rush to form lines to get in and partake of the dazzling wonders only to be herded into unemployment lines, welfare lines, and the lines of junkies, prostitutes, and street criminals that populate urban marginality.

La Bodega Sold Dreams is a cold and bitter vision of the United States by a true bandit-poet, one who has lived on the outskirts of established society and has, from the vantage point, cast a critical eye on its workings.

-Nicolas Kanellos, Editor
Revista Chicano-Riqueno