Description
Includes a Foreword from Raquel Salas Rivera!
In Desgraciado, Angel Dominguez navigates language and memory to illuminate the ongoing traumas of misremembered and missing histories and their lasting impacts. Dominguez unravels a critical and tender language of lived experience in letters addressed to their ancestral oppressor, Diego de Landa, (a Spanish friar who attempted to destroy the written Maya language in Mani Yucatán, on July 12th 1562), to articulate an old rage, dreaming of a futurity beyond the wreckage and ruin of the colonial imaginary. This collection doesn't seek to heal the incurable wound of colonization so much as attempt to re-articulate a language towards recuperation.
Author: Angel Dominguez
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781643621142
ISBN10: 1643621149
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
About the Author
Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA by their immigrant family. They're the author of Rose Sun Water (The Operating System, 2021) and Black Lavender Milk (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015). Angel earned a BA from the University of California Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado. You can find Angel's work online and in print in various publications. You can find Angel in the redwoods or ocean. DESGRACIADO (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books, 2022) is their third book.