Nagualli: May 2014

about | co-curators

Here uncoils a collective psychogeography of the Americas—a personal exploration of indigenous poetics and epistemes. With a specific focus on Nagualism, the native American practice of self-splitting and metamorphosis, this collective project (executed as a continuous exchange between its collaborators) confirms that metamorphosis is a rapid, ongoing process without beginning or end, an antinomous exchange of excess in limitless operation. So while we post here, a chattering seed grows suddenly to a green stalk while a stone or mountain teems with personhood and animacy; and we match that overflow with overflow. Thus do we redistribute cosmic energy. Its first transfer long preceded our arrival; but we continue the exchange, the extension which is likewise our rootedness. To a great extent, this is simply a record of the personal reading habits of its co-curators, Jose-Luis Moctezuma and Edgar Garcia.

Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a californiano and a current doctoral student at the University of Chicago. His studies focus on technologies of the image in poetry, cinema, and literature. His work has been/will be published by Berkeley Poetry Review, PALABRA, Cerise Press, and MAKE Magazine. He is an editor and writer at Hydra Magazine.

Edgar Garcia's poetry, translations, and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including Antioch Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Big Bridge, Damn the Caesars, Exit 9, Jacket2, Los Angeles Review of Books, MAKE Magazine, Mandorla, Sous les Pavés, and Those That This: Arts Journal. Author of Mayan Texts: A Galactic Birth Canal (Burnt Water Booklets, 2010) and Boundary Loot (Punch Press, 2012), he was also formerly a writer and editor at Hydra Magazine. An anthology that he has co-edited titled American Literature in the World is forthcoming from Columbia UP. In 2015 he completed a Ph.D. in American Literature at Yale University and began as Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Nagualli

Friday, May 30, 2014

Connie Barlow, "Ghosts of Evolution"

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Steve Penny, Campbell Grant, and Elisabeth Waldo, "Cave Paintings of the Chumash Indians"

George Angelo, "Whispers, The Chumash"

Mariana Echevarria, "Tongva, First Nation People of Los Angeles"

Tongva/Tovangar/El Santo Mundo, Indigenous of Los Angeles Valley

Linda Gonzales, "Tongva, the First People Nation of Los Angeles County"

Guide Young Cloud, "Tongva Nation: Original People of Los Angeles"

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Larry Jordan, "Duo Concertantes"

Larry Jordan, "Gymnopedies" (1965)

Thursday, May 22, 2014

La Peregrinación Mexica

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa), "Evolution of Whales, Whales Tohorā"

Monday, May 19, 2014

Luis Pérez, "Ipan in xiktli metztli (En el Ombligo de la Luna)" [1981]

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Tangerine Dream, "Sorcerer"

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Deb Wallwork, "Sacred Buffalo People" (story by Pete Catches Sr.)

James Maffie, "Weaving the Cosmos: The Metaphysics of the Aztec 5th Age"

Friday, May 16, 2014

Gabriel Retes, Nuevo Mundo (1978)

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, "A Glorious Dawn"

Bob Ross, "Happy Little Clouds"

Monday, May 12, 2014

Kid Frost, "La Raza"

Joanelle Romero, "American Holocaust"

Alcaldia Indigena Ixil, "1er Aniversario de la Sentencia por Genocidio en Guatemala"

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Chief Seattle, Reply to Franklin Pierce in Washington, read by Wes Felty

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Sun Ra, The Antique Blacks