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Founded in 2014, Cardboard House Press is a space for dialogue between poetics that investigate social, environmental, political, cartographic and linguistic formations. Cardboard House Press publishes poetry in translation in the United States by Latin American and Spanish authors and prints books through diverse processes, including letterpress, block printing, stencil, screenprinting and digital. A series of our publications are made by hand in community workshops. All our books are bilingual.


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AWAITING MAJOR EVENTS

ESPERO GRANDES ACONTECIMIENTOS

Nurit Kasztelan
Translated from the Spanish by Maureen Shaughnessy

Design by Mutandis

Poetry
Chapbook
Bilingual edition
44 pages
ISBN 978-1-945720-22-2
September 22, 2021







Awaiting Major Events invites us on a trip in space and time—to other rivers, other lands, where childhood and present are “tied like a knot.” Kasztelan writes with the five senses, delicately, the way you disentangle one plant from another, and so climb into fluctuation between the domestic and multiple “theres,” between the I and the “layers of other things,” between her own writing and references to the writing of others (Elizabeth Bishop, Ricardo Molinari, Irene Gruss). We arrive at the end of the book like we arrive home from a journey, “saturated with stimuli.” “What lingers after a trip?” The real possibility of getting back, or getting back to the glimmer of certain images: the filigree of a cameo, the broken branch of an olive tree, the language—with the skillful translation of Maureen Shaughnessy—of a forest that brings together the infinite and the consciousness of limit.

—Silvina López Medin







Nurit Kasztelan (Buenos Aires, 1982). She has published the collections Movimientos Incorpóreos (Bs. As., 2007), Teoremas (Montevideo, 2010), Lógica de los accidentes (Bs. As. 2013, Cáceres, 2014, 2015), O amor era um jogo instável (Sao Pablo, 2018), and Después (Bs. As. 2018, Cáceres, 2019). She coordinated the reading series La manzana en el gusano and co-edited the magazine No-retornable. She is co-editor of the publishing house Excursiones and runs an atypical bookshop in her house: MiCasa.




Maureen Shaughnessy (1979) has translated fiction by Latin American authors published in journals such as The Paris Review, Brick, AGNI and World Literature Today. Her translation of Hebe Uhart’s selected stories, The Scent of Buenos Aires (Archipelago Books) was longlisted for the 2020 PEN translation prize. She is currently co-translating a novel by Sara Gallardo. She was born in Portland, Oregon and lives in Bariloche, Argentina.