Description

A collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory.

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 Yucat?, on July 12th 1562), to articulate an old rage, dreaming of a futurity beyond the wreckage and ruin of the colonial imaginary. This collection doesnt seek to heal the incurable wound of colonization so much as attempt to re-articulate a language towards recuperation.

Author: Angel Dominguez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781643621142
Language: English