Edgar Garcia
Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020); Infinite Regress (collaborative work with Eamon Ore-Giron, Bom Dia Books, 2021); and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is presently finishing a collection of adaptations and translations of mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl language songs, Cantares; and a book about the baroque titled Caravaggio’s Americas. He is faculty in the departments of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.