Edgar Garcia

About:

Edgar Garcia’s poetry, translations and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including Damn the Caesars, Jacket2, MAKE, Mandorla and Sous les Pavés. Author of Mayan Texts: A Galactic Birth Canal (Burnt Water Press) and Boundary Loot (forthcoming, Punch Press), he is also an editor and writer for Hydra Magazine and co-curates the blog nagualli.blogspot.com. He is completing a PhD in American Literature at Yale University.

Latest Posts:

Thoughts on Conspiracy Gnosticism: Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!

Thoughts on Conspiracy Gnosticism: Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!

RAW food is good for your mind, Edgar Garcia explains why.

| June 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Poetries of an Occupation: Police Violence and Peoples’ Voices

Poetries of an Occupation: Police Violence and Peoples’ Voices

These are interesting times indeed. When something we collectively call time is interrupted by a situation...

| November 22, 2011 | No Comments »

Scenes from an Occupation

Scenes from an Occupation

In the final sequence of 'Wolfen' three detectives are caught crossing the stock exchange steps at Wall Street by a pack of wolves.

| November 5, 2011 | No Comments »

Book Review of Charles Drazin’s “French Cinema”

Book Review of Charles Drazin’s “French Cinema”

French cinema lies somewhere in between iconicity and iconoclasm. Charles Drazin's new book explores the history of its tradition and auteurs.

| July 15, 2011 | No Comments »

Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of the Andoumboulou and the Migration from Mu

Nathaniel Mackey’s Song of the Andoumboulou and the Migration from Mu

Edgar Garcia explores Nathaniel Mackey's call to reimagine the American borderzones.

| May 17, 2011 | No Comments »

The Fountain of Aronofskyan Youth

The Fountain of Aronofskyan Youth

From Metacom to the Maya, Revere to Aronofsky, etchings to CGI, the Indian is delivered with deformities.

| March 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »

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00 | 11 PREDICTIONS FOR 20 | 11

Eschatology grips the world. Here are 11 of the most extreme predictions for what is to come.

| January 3, 2011 | No Comments »

Something in from Near Waters: Small Anchor Press and the Dory Reader

Something in from Near Waters: Small Anchor Press and the Dory Reader

As I sat down with the first issue of the Dory Reader, poems by Jen Bervin, it became apparent to me that a dory, although modest in size, still conveys something from a larger body. The point, in other words, is to fish.

| December 13, 2010 | No Comments »

El Disco Es Cultura: Circular Flows Migrating North

El Disco Es Cultura: Circular Flows Migrating North

Cumbia has a growing worldwide following. Hydra tracks the paths and projects of some of its devotees.

| December 6, 2010 | No Comments »

The Worlds of the Men Who Killed Kennedy

The Worlds of the Men Who Killed Kennedy

Lee Harvey Oswald looked in the bathroom mirror of his Moscow hotel room, sometime around 3 PM, October 21, 1951, and split himself in two.

| November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »