adjacent islands: Special Edition

Nicole Cecilia Delgado

Translated by Urayoán Noel

 | $40

March 2023

This special edition of 50 copies numbered and signed by the author includes a set of eight postcards designed and risograph-printed by the author at La Impresora, Isabela, Puerto Rico, bound together with the book by a belly band designed and printed by the author and assembled at the Ugly Duckling Presse studio.

About the Author

Nicole Cecilia Delgado is a poet, translator, and book artist. Her work has been translated into English, Catalan, Polish, German, Galician, and Portuguese. With the poet Amanda Hernández, she currently directs and develops La Impresora, a poetry press and risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale editorial work and allocating resources to support local independent publishing, and from which they also organize the Independent and Alternative Book Fair in Puerto Rico (FLIA PR).

About the Translator

Urayoán Noel is the author of 10 books, including Transversal (University of Arizona Press), a New York Public Library Book of the Year, and In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Prize. He is the translator of No Budu Please by Wingston González (UDP) and the editor and translator of Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books), a finalist for the National Translation Award. Noel also translated the concrete poems in Amanda Berenguer’s Materia Prima (UDP), which was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. A translator for The Puerto Rican Literature Project (PLPR), Urayoán Noel teaches at New York University and at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas.

Publication Details

Artist Book, Special Edition
105 pp, 4.375 x 5.75 in
Publication Date: March 01 2023
Distribution: Direct Only