Following on the heels of a synaptically overcharged launch for this book in Gloucester on 21 December 2012 featuring brain-shattering readings from Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Boyd Nielson, Josh Stanley and Garcia himself, Punch Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Edgar Garcia’s Boundary Loot, a slim but riveting run of poems introduced with a prefatory note from Dennis Tedlock.
In the opening statement of his preface to this inaugural collection of poems from Garcia, Dennis Tedlock writes: “Somewhere in reach of his keyboard, Edgar Garcia has feathers and shells, fragments of bone and bits of obsidian, picked up in tidal zones or the dirt of ruined cities.” Letterpress and silkscreen on Stonehenge wraps folded over black bristol. Hand Stitched.
Inside the U.S. — $7
Outside the U.S. — $10
Video from the Gloucester launch should be uploaded to the DTC Youtube page shortly [...] though in advance of this I’d like to publicly acknowledge what an amazing experience the event was, held on the final day of a 4125 year Mayan Long Cycle, a date hysterically imagined by dangerously unstable white dudes as the end of the world. While creepy middle-aged preppers were likely packing their Crovals, ammo and guns for transport to underground bunkers in anticipation of the apocalypse, Edgar, Josh, Boyd and Jose offered incredibly compelling readings, Edgar building on, among other things, the work of Ethnopoetics with a subdued but affirmatively searing critique of capital, conquest and the militarized borders of American culture. Amazing all around.
