This tender and incisive chapbook navigates the terrains of trust, longing, family, and the unsaid in relationships—particularly through the lens of a Mexican-American woman coming to voice her truths. Delgado’s language is unflinching, intimate, and rhythmic: she sketches late-night corridors of conversation, confession, and memory, asking what counts as trust, what gets spoken, and what stays in shadow.
Crafted as a fine-press object, the edition was printed at CBA on Corden & Wild Text paper and bound in Swamp Press fashion with an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. The book’s physical presence—its size (6.75″ × 9.75″), paper texture, and binding—invites readers to slow down and engage with every line as both text and object.
For lovers of bold poetry and beautifully made books, Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust is a compelling union of craft and voice: a book you’ll want both on your shelf and in your hands.
Published in honor of the 2015 Chapbook contest winner, Diana Marie Delgado. This chapbook was printed on Cordenons' Wild text and St. Armand Canal's Denim cover using Pastonchi and Della Robbia types cast in the heat of our sunflower summer. All press work and binding by Swamp Press. Illustrations by Barbara Henry.