Alejandro Murguía Explained

Alejandro Murguía
Birth Date:	15 August 1949
Nationality:	American
Awards:	American Book Award (1991, 2003)

Alejandro Murguía (born August 15, 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

• Book: This War Called Love . City Lights Publishers . 978-0-87286-394-1 . May 2002 .
• Book: The medicine of memory: a Mexica clan in California . registration. Alejandro Murguía.. University of Texas Press. 2002. 978-0-292-75267-2 .
• Book: Volcán: poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology . registration. Alejandro Murguía.. Alejandro Murguía . Barbara Paschke. Photographer Barbara Paschke. City Lights Books. 1983. 978-0-87286-153-4 .
• Book: Southern Front. Bilingual Review Press . March 1990. 978-0-916950-97-2 .
• Book: El Sol y los de Abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems / Oracion a la Mano Poderosa . Jose Montoya, Alejandro Murguia. Photographer Adal . Ediciones Pocho-Che. 1972 .
• Book: Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6. City Lights Publishers. May 2014. 978-0-87286-616-4.

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Cd8Bwq32wYcC&q=Alejandro+Murgu%C3%ADa&pg=PA123. A Long Walk. Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: an anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló. Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez . David William Foster . Taylor & Francis. 1997 . 978-0-8153-2077-7 .
• Book: The Political Edge. registration. 53. Alejandro Murguía.. Into the Fray. Chris Carlsson . City Lights Books. 2005 . 978-1-931404-05-1 .

External links

• Book: Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture . registration. 225. Alejandro Murguía.. James Brook . Chris Carlsson . Nancy Joyce Peters. City Lights Books. 1998 . 978-0-87286-335-4 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alejandro Murguia's Biography | Red Room - Where the Writers Are . 2009-11-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101217004317/http://www.redroom.com/author/alejandro-murguia/bio . 2010-12-17 . dead .
2. Web site: Alejandro Murguía sees poetry in S.F.. SFGate. 21 January 2013. 2014-10-09.
3. Web site: Welcome to Latina/Latino Studies | Latina/Latino Studies.
4. Web site: Alejandro Murguía Named SF Poet Laureate. SFPL News Releases. 2014-10-09. 2012-07-27.
5. Web site: Alejandro Murguia . San Francisco International Poetry Festival . 2014-10-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120727004139/http://sfipf.org/poets/alejandro-murguia/. dead. 2012-07-27.