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DEMONS OF EMINENCE
DECEMBER 10, 2024
THE FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES
BO HUSTON AWARD WINNER
"A young travel nurse observes and sanctifies the friendship betweem an older gay porn star and a goth chola dropout half his age, one that leads to them throwing endless parties in an industrialized corner of southern California at the height of the pandemic "
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"Hail the sad-boys, demon twinks, puppy punks, burly cholos, gurlie goths, marijuanos, gay tweekers, DL dudes, plaid vaqueros, circuit fairies, trans otters, lesbian-poet-theorists, and leathered manwhores who people Joshua Escobar’s inspired and lovingly rendered universe. Suspended between COVID stay-at-home orders and the strained capacity of a hospital’s ICU, a glitter-spangled affirmation blazes through suffering, loss, and loneliness in a euphoria of sex-parties and drug-fueled raves around Southern California’s Inland Empire. In hard-edged prose with an ear for the feverish poetry of gay banter and elective jotoaffinities, Escobar expertly captures the intergenerational “crossfire of pain and ambition” as the festival of youth begins to fade into the night horizon between Fontana and Los Angeles,"
Roberto Tejada
Bareback Nightfall
Available NOW from Noemi Press + Letras Latinas
LGBT Latinx Poetry, #experimental, finalist for the 2021 California Book Award
Bareback Nightfall is about a dj who falls in love with a doctor. When the relationship turns abusive, the dj runs to a dystopia where there is no diference between nightlife and the day-to-day. While traveling, the dj, DJ Ashtrae, finds out that the doctor, Doctor Electronic has overdosed, and it's unclear as to whether it was an accident. DJ Ashtrae is left with Doctor Electronic's unfinished expose about corruption in the healthcare industry--an expose that he can never make sense of. It also records emotional back-and-forth between queer friends and a ravethrown by piñatas.
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chapbooks
chapbook from DoubleCross Press 2019
Part of the #TransformMigration Series
Winner, No, Dear/Small Anchor Chapbook Prize 2017
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