A mano / By Hand

Starting with Ulises Carrión’s claim that “there is no art and life, but rather only life,” poet and publisher Nicole Delgado’s essay wonders how to live a life of poetry, tracing her movements through a variety of communities and economies in New York, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, in a landscape populated by books, book fairs, publishers, makers, artists, and poets. Through these travels and engagements, Delgado proposes that poetry is the basic unit of the project, the project of living a life in communities with dignity and joy.