Angel Dominguez Libri

Exploring themes of memory and ancestral connection, this collection of bioluminescent writing addresses the impact of colonial gentrification on identity and place. It traces a journey from Los Angeles to the Yucatán, weaving together elements of nature and spirituality. The work aims to complete a poem initiated by Angel's grandmother, reflecting a quest for the restoration of heritage, dreams, and a sense of belonging. Through vivid imagery, it captures the essence of reclaiming one's roots and the ongoing search for home.

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 a visceral constellation of language and memory, illuminating the ongoing impacts 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.