Alejandro Murguia

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Name Alejandro Murguia Role Poet		Awards American Book Awards

Books This War Called Love, The Medicine of Memory, Stray Poems: San Fran, Southern Front, Farewell to the Coast

Alejandro murguia poet

Alejandro Murguía (born 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, and editor. He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.

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He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University. In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate.

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Sf poet laureate alejandro murguia on the mission and the other barrio

Awards

1991, 2003 American Book Award

2012 San Francisco Poet Laureate

Works

This War Called Love. City Lights Publishers. May 2002. ISBN 978-0-87286-394-1.

The medicine of memory: a Mexica clan in California. University of Texas Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-292-75267-2.

Alejandro Murguía, Barbara Paschke, eds. (1983). Volcán: poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology. Photographer Barbara Paschke. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-153-4. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Southern Front. Bilingual Review Press. March 1990. ISBN 978-0-916950-97-2.

Jose Montoya, Alejandro Murguia (1972). El Sol y los de Abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems / Oracion a la Mano Poderosa. Photographer Adal. Ediciones Pocho-Che.

Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6. City Lights Publishers. May 2014. ISBN 978-0-87286-616-4.

Anthologies

Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez, David William Foster, eds. (1997). "A Long Walk". Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: an anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8153-2077-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Chris Carlsson, ed. (2005). "Into the Fray". The Political Edge. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-1-931404-05-1.

References

Alejandro Murguía Wikipedia

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