BOMB Magazine presents…
The Quotidian is Electric and Alive:
A Conversation by Angel Dominguez and Emji Saint Spero
The authors discuss their new books, Desgraciado and disgust, two poetry collections that are radical acts of correspondence.
“This interview began six years ago as a rogue email, 36,903 feet in the air, somewhere between Chicago and Detroit, a conversation surrounding the works-in-progress that would become Angel Dominguez’s Desgraciado (The Collected Letters) (Nightboat Books) and Emji Saint Spero’s disgust (Nomadic Press). Saint Spero had recently co-founded Timeless, Infinite Light, a small press in Oakland that would go on to publish Dominguez’s debut, Black Lavender Milk. This interview braids the timescapes of these two artists and poets whose performance practice engages the radical intimacy of the electric quotidian. Saint Spero’s disgust and Dominguez's Desgraciado have found one another across the long winds of the pandemic. This disembodied meeting of spirits across the digital realm (by which we mean Zoom) is a durational interview opening the new year, finding ekphrastic resonances and temporal tethers of dilation and collapse. A crack that allows for entry.”