The journal dreamt itself. Its pages you wrote to capture mental colony from its root in the name, Cristóbal Colón. But what captivities does the name, that sound—Colón—hide? Drop its diacritic and you drift like plastic in a sea of eroto- genic marks. How does the large intestine entwine in the same sign that names […]
A Dialogue through the Reconstruction of Missing Voice: Steven Alvarez in conversation with Edgar Garcia
Edgar Garcia: We’re going to start now, and one of the reasons why I thought the audio recording would be interesting was because I think it makes the job easier for both of us, as it’s more casual, laid-back, straightforward—just like we’re having a conversation. But also, on a more metapoetic, self-theorizing level, your book […]