[02/23/27] Dominguez, Angel: Don't Tell My Mother If They Kill Me

Nightboat Books, paperback

Publication Date: February 23, 2027

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Poems of heart and fist that wrestle with form, craft, legacy, memory, and mortality.

Don't Tell My Mother If They Kill Me is a rebellious declaration of anti-fascist survival poetics. Part manifesto, part prayer/spell book, these dynamic, playful, provocative, and unapologetic poems pull no punches, attempting to offer reservoirs of energetic nourishment to arm oneself with joy, creativity, and connection. Providing a proletariat lens to contemporary poetry, these are working class poems--smoke break poems, poems to keep it pushing, poems to press onward against the woes and throes of empire and its many henchmen.