Stray poems
By: Alejandro Murguía
Series: San Francisco poet laureate series -- no. 6; San Francisco poet laureate -- no. 6.
Publisher: City Lights Foundation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9781931404136
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia'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 Murguia'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 Murguia 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"--
Notes: Some poems have Spanish on the facing pages.