Desgraciado: (The Collected Letters)

By Angel Dominguez

Book Overview

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 n, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621149
• ISBN13: 9781643621142
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.0"