Stray Poems

＂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 mostrecent 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＂--