Desgraciado
(the collected letters)
*Of interest to everyone who experiences the ongoing effects and violences of colonization, in particular, those of a queer (American) Latinx experience in particular, who are 1st and 2nd generation individuals, those engaging in historical or anthropological studies regarding the Maya people of the Yucatan Peninsula and as well as individuals with an interest in colonial and decolonial studies outside of poetry, Post Colonial Studies and Decolonial Critical Theory aficionados, readers interested in: the avante garde, hybrid-genres, conceptual and investigative lyric, prose poetry, metaphysical dialogue, ancestry, séance, rogue epistolary, feral correspondence, and quotidian interiors
*Author is a former visiting lecturer for California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), where they founded and curated the first Latinx Poetix Symposium in Spring 2018.
*Author currently co-edits a Latinx/Chicanx Poetx Broadside Series with Moving Parts Press
*Author is currently the Program Coordinator & Grad advisor for the History of Consciousness PhD program at UCSC
*Author holds a BA from UCSC and an MFA from Naropa University
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 now live amongst the Santa Cruz Mountains in Bonny Doon, CA. They’re the author of RoseSunWater and Black Lavender Milk. Their third book, DESGRACIADO (the collected letters) is forthcoming with Nightboat Books in 2022. 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.
