BOOK LAUNCH & READING: adjacent islands / islas adyacentes

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. (The Clemente) is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While The Clemente’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.

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A reading to celebrate the launch of the book "adjacent islands / islas adyacentes"  
Wednesday, December 7th at 6:30PM

The Clemente Center

Join us Wednesday, December 7th at 6:30PM for a reading to celebrate the launch of Nicole Cecilia Delgado's adjacent islands/islas adyacentes, translated by Urayoán Noel, with additional readings from Mara Pastor and Edwin Torreswith. co-hosted by The Clemente, Doublecross Press, La Impresora, and Ugly Duckling PressNicole Cecilia Delgado’s book art is intimate yet poised toward the radically communitarian, both in the people and histories evoked in its pages and in the collaborative and unabashedly political orientation of her editorial and publishing work.

The event is Co-organized by<a href="https://www.instagram.com/uglyducklingprs/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Ugly Duckling </a>A﻿bout the Book<a href="https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/adjacent-islands/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">adjacent islands/islas adyacentes</a> is a bilingual edition of her artist books amoná (2013) and subtropical dry (2016), both based on camping trips to islands in the Puerto Rican archipelago: the uninhabited Mona to the west of the main island and the municipality of Vieques to the east (Amoná and Bieké in the reconstructed indigenous Taíno language). Challenging the insularist logic that has historically defined Puerto Rican national imaginaries, on these adjacent islands, people and nature connect in unexpected ways, as Delgado documents the art of survival under military occupation, extractivism, and the surveillance state. Part of a larger corpus of what Delgado calls “camping books,” adjacent islands / islas adjacentes seeks to translate the intemperie (open sky) of the camping trip onto the confines of the page. Delgado follows the late Ulises Carrión in enacting a networked book art where “communication is still inter-subjective, but it occurs in a concrete, real, physical space—the page.” Call it book art as counterarchive.A﻿bout the AuthorNicole 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 TranslatorUrayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico and Transversal, both with the University of Arizona Press. He received the LASA Latino Studies Section Book Prize and an MLA Honorable Mention for his study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press). His translations include no budu please by Wingston González (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books), which was a finalist for the National Translation Award. He also translated the concrete poems in Amanda Berenguer’s Materia Prima (UDP), which was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. Noel is an associate professor of English and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University and has also taught at SUNY Albany, CantoMundo, and Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, he lives in the Bronx.A﻿bout the PublicationISBN: 978-1-946604-18-7 Trade Paperback Publication Date: December 15 2022 Distribution: Direct Only

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