Alejandro Murgua

Broschiertes Buch

Stray Poems

Beschreibung

San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish.

Autor

Alejandro Murguia is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book The Medicine of Memory highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He was a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, and co-editor of Volcan: Poetry From Central America. Currently he is a professor in Latina Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the short story "The Other Barrio" which first appeared in the anthology San Francisco Noir and recently filmed in the streets of the Mission District. In poetry he has published Spare Poems, and this year a new collection Native Tongue. He is the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino poet to hold the position.

Produktdetails

• San Francisco Poet Laureate Series
• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 124mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781931404136
• ISBN-10: 1931404135
• Artikelnr.: 39408647