Alejandro Murguía
Alejandro Murguía (born 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, and editor.[1] He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.[2]
He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University.[3] In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate.[4]
Awards
- 1991, 2003 American Book Award [5]
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Chris Carlsson, ed. (2005). "Into the Fray". The Political Edge. City Lights Books. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-931404-05-1.
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References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2009-11-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Alejandro Murguía sees poetry in S.F." SFGate. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
- http://www.sfsu.edu/~raza/faculty1.html
- "Alejandro Murguía Named SF Poet Laureate". SFPL News Releases. 2012-07-27. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
- "Alejandro Murguia". San Francisco International Poetry Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-07-27. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
External links
- James Brook; Chris Carlsson; Nancy Joyce Peters, eds. (1998). Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture. City Lights Books. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-87286-335-4.
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