Desgraciado : (the collected letters) / Angel Dominguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dominguez, Angel, 1989- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epistolary poetry, American.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Nightboat Books, [2022]

Summary:

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. 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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

From Our Shared Disgrace

Begin Reading

Acknowledgments

Angel Dominguez

Nightboat Books.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dominguez, Angel Desgraciado

ISBN:

9781643621340

OCLC:

1336079755