Edgar Garcia

About:

Edgar Garcia is completing a PhD in American Literature at Yale University. His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Damn The Caesars, The Dirty Pond, Jacket2, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine, Mandorla and Sous les Pavés. Boundary Loot, a chapbook, is forthcoming from Punch Press.

Latest Posts:

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 | 1 Comment »

Whose Space? or, Are You Allowed to Leave Earth? What Foolish Faith in Disney

Are you allowed to leave planet Earth? What Disney and the Federal Code of Regulations have to say about the matter.

| November 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »