Alejandro Murguía Explained

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

Alejandro Murguía (born August 15, 1949),^[1] is an American poet, short story writer, educator, and editor.^[2] He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.^[3]

Biography

Alejandro Murguía was born on August 15, 1949, in the United States, and he was raised in Mexico after the death of his mother. He moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco in the early 1970s^[4] He has a B.A. degree and M.F.A. degree from San Francisco State University (SFSU).

Murguía teaches Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate by mayor Ed Lee.

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. Book: Kanellos, Nicolás . Latino Almanac: From Early Explorers to Corporate Leaders . 2022-09-20 . Visible Ink Press . 978-1-57859-753-6 . 718 . en.
2. 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 .
3. Web site: May . Meredith . 21 January 2013 . Alejandro Murguía sees poetry in S.F. . SFGate.
4. Web site: 2013-01-31 . Getting to know Alejandro Murguía . 2024-10-14 . . en-US.
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.