One of America's foremost prose poets, Richard Garcia's
The Chair
simultaneously takes place in the natural world and a speculative world rich in the fabulist tradition: historical figures roam like ghosts, time is pulled and twisted, and narrative spins effortlessly out of language. A core of autobiography grounds these poems that are rife with surprises uniting the mythic and the everyday.
Richard Garcia
's awards include an NEA, a Pushcart Prize, and the American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He teaches creative writing in the Antioch UniversityLos Angeles Low-Residency MFA program and lives on James Island, South Carolina.