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Stray poems / Alejandro Murguía.
- Title
- Stray poems / Alejandro Murguía.
- Author
- Murguía, Alejandro, 1949-
- Publication
- San Francisco : City Lights Foundation, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.U7255 A6 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 109 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murgui;a's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic account of San Francisco's Native and Latino literary history. What follows is a selection of Murgui;a's most recent work, composed over the past twelve years. These are poems of the twenty-first century, written in a combination of English and Spanish-the patois of contemporary America. Angry, rebellious, subversive, sentimental, hip, urban, local, global.Alejandro Murgui;a is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, both winners of the American Book Award. He is San Francisco's first Latino Poet Laureate"--
- Series Statement
- San Francisco poet laureate ; no. 6
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- San Francisco poet laureate ; no. 6.
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781931404136 (pbk.)
- 1931404135 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013040667
- OCLC
- 858603294
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library