Book record
Adjacent Islands
Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Translated from Spanish by Urayoán Noel
There is a strong literary gravity around Adjacent Islands, Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s Spanish-language work translated by Urayoan Noel. The book’s center of force is Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s island poetics, attentive to adjacency, relation, and the way a shoreline can be both border and address, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Puerto Rico, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Puerto Rico
- ISBN
- 9781946604187