︎
︎

︎Home 

︎Catalog
︎New & Forthcoming
︎Cartonera   
︎Submissions   
︎Support   
︎About   
︎Contact


︎  ︎

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.


︎Newsletter
Mark
POETECHNICS

Yaxkin Melchy 


Translated from the Spanish by Ryan Greene

Designed by Mutandis
Covers letterpress printed with Shut Eye Press

Poetry
Spanish | English
Book Art
60 pages

Part of the Cartonera Collective Series, these books include a letterpress cover and are made by hand in community workshops, using sewn binding with recycled cardboard.

ISBN 978-1-945720-28-4
April 5, 2023




The publication of this book was made possible in part by a grant from the Poetry Foundation.


----   ----


Yaxkin Melchy's Poetechnics is an invitational poetic provocation that both transforms and transcends the traditional categorization(s) of poetry and science. Drawn from the first two full-length books in his decade-in-the-making project, THE NEW WORLD, the sci-tech poems in Poetechnics celebrate Melchy's lyrically rich and formally inventive approach to disciplinary blurring. This wonderstruck collection, dancing from the depths of the ocean to the furthest reaches of outer space, traverses circuit diagrams, binary sequences, textbook figures, and more. Here, in these thrumming bilingual pages (and their accompanying digital "transfluxions"), we witness Melchy in action, kinetic and expansive, as he invites us to dream alongside him toward "a scientific imaginary rooted in the heart."



Click HERE to enter the portal of interactive transfluxions designed to accompany the physical text of Poetechnics!


 Praise 


"Quick: find your heart. You might dance or you might burn, sprout a seed or grow a circuit. Welcome to the new-wild generation of translational literary poetechnics!"
―Sawako Nakayasu



"An image-rich proliferation with the cosmic dimension of Vicente Huidobro, but re-greened with minute plankton and myriad unprecedented associations. Poetry upturned toward the cosmos inhabiting the continuous spectrum of the minuscule and the macro."

―Roberto Echavarren



“Yaxkin's work is extraterrestrial.”
―Enrique Verástegui


 Author 

Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (Mexico City, 1985) is a Mexican and Peruvian-Quechua poet, translator, ecopoetics researcher, and artisan-activist-editor. He is the author of THE NEW WORLD, a five-part “constellation-book” which was written intermittently between 2007 and 2017. Currently he is a graduate student at Tsukuba University in Japan, where he is researching ecopoetic currents between Japan and Latin America. Since 2017, he has been translating contemporary Japanese poetry to Spanish, and currently he runs the artisanal press Cactus del viento, which focuses on ecological, spiritual, and transpacific poetics. He also publishes on his personal blog, Flor de Amaneceres.
 

 Translator 

Ryan Greene (b. 1994) is a translator, book farmer, and poet from Phoenix, Arizona who is currently working with Yaxkin Melchy to translate the first three books of THE NEW WORLD. He's a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS [www.fiikbooks.org] and a housemate at no.good.home [www.nogoodhome.com]. His translations include work by Elena Salamanca, Claudina Domingo, Ana Belén López, Giancarlo Huapaya, and Yaxkin Melchy, among others. Since 2018, he has co-facilitated the Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective bookmaking workshops at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore. Like Collier, the ground he stands on is not his ground.



 Reviews 


Poetechnics by Yaxkin Melchy reviewed by Kathy Wu in Rain Taxi:
“The text of Poetechnics introduces multi-valent, multi-versal registers of syntax, casting light on the logos of the world. Here the grapheme also becomes alive; while climbing an algebraicfunction, readers are both a straightforward line in two dimensionsand simultaneously “feel the wind and won’t ever think about sadness again.” The technology of language is rendered concrete, is chal-lenged to hold near-infinite registers—it mutates between notation and feeling, between algorithm and affect. What new axioms? What possible originating points? In histories and presents and futures of science, Poetechnics offers restless, green imaginations and electric possibility.”


Poetechnics by Yaxkin Melchy reviewed by London Pinkney in The Ana:
"[Poetechnics] functions as a machine [...] Throughout the collection form, language, and muse are not bent, but rather, adapted to reflect our Digital Age. Titles are shifted around the page, the poems have become diagrams. We are in an era where we consume more information than generations past. Poetechnics embodies that everythingness."



Translator Ryan Greene interviewed by Olivia Lott in Action Books:

“Yaxkin’s poems constantly catch me by surprise. The way his images jump and loop back, how the page is activated, the lyric cascades, the scales shifting, his metapoetic meditations. There’s an expansiveness here that I’ve felt grateful to spend time around. I’m also really moved by the ways he combines playfulness and critique, experimentation and heartedness.”



︎