Found Objects/Objectos Encontrados Chapbook by Nicole Cecilia Delgado and DoubleCross Press
“The first bilingual book by Puerto Rican poet, translator, and publisher Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Objetos Encontrados / Found Objects collects poems from Delgado’s books published in Mexico and Puerto Rico between 2007 and 2019. Each poem appears both in the original Spanish and in English translation, thanks to translators Carina del Valle Schorske, Katie Marya, Urayoán Noel, and Raquel Salas Rivera. Delgado’s poems combine a clear-eyed assessment of the devastating effects of US neoliberal colonialism in Puerto Rico with wry wit and an eye for the hope to be found in friendship, nature, and poetry itself.
These poems were previously published in the books intemperie (2007), el cristal con que se mira (Honda Nómada, 2008), Violencias cotidianas (Literal, 2009), La sed de los oráculos (2.0.1.2 Editorial, 2012), Sucede que yo soy América (La Impresora, 2015), Apenas un cantáro: Poemas 2007-2017 (Aguadulce, 2017), Días naturales (La Impresora, 2018), and Periodo especial (Aguadulce/La Impresora, 2019). Objetos encontrados / Found Objects is the first book produced through our Stabilized Editions Apartment Residency.” - DoubleCross Press
5.25” x 6” x 0.5”
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Nicole Cecilia Delgado (she/her) is a poet, translator, and book artist. Her latest book of poems, Periodo Especial (Aguadulce/La Impresora), explores the socioeconomic mirror images between the Greater Antilles in light of Puerto Rico’s ongoing financial crisis. Her recent pamphlet A Mano/By Hand (Ugly Duckling Presse) is an essay on the attempt “to live with dignity, to achieve real quality of life, to create community in the process and find joy doing so” in a life lived in and through poetry. 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).
DoubleCross Press is a publisher of handmade books of poetry and poetics. With an eye toward artist book studio practices and spaces, and toward the materials and structures of contemporary and historic hand-bookmaking, they produce physical manifestations of their writers' language. They publish poetry chapbooks, essays on book arts and book culture, poetry journals, and other materials exploring the boundaries of poetry, poetics, and artist books.
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