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This War Called Love

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This War Called Love

Alejandro Murguía

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Alejandro Murguía

Alejandro Murguía was born in California, but raised in Mexico City. His experiences as an international volunteer in the Nicaraguan Insurrection of 1979 are recounted in his second collection of short stories Southern Front (American Book Award,1991). He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches Latin American literature at San Francisco State University.

Edited by Alejandro Murguía

Volcan

Volcan

Barbara Paschke, Alejandro Murguía

Poems from Central America

A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but-in the conception of its editors-this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themselves were often copied by hand and smuggled onto Mexico, from...