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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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Sediment/o

Omar Pimienta


Sediment/o is a textual and visual documentary exploration of the history of the Tijuana River and the stewardship of its landscape. Through histories of migration, infrastructure, and sociopolitical violence, the book traces the ways human presence accumulate in and reshape land. Drawing on the geography of the Tijuana River watershed and the lived experience of transborder movement, Sediment/o examines what settles, what is carried away, and what resurfaces. In this bilingual edition, Spanish and English inhabit the landscape together, extending the book’s exploration of belonging and displacement in a region whose language, memory, and identity have been as intermittent as the river itself.




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Poetry | Paperback | Bilingual edition
220 pages| ISBN 978-1-945720-54-3
August 19, 2027 | Design: Mutandis
The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the support of the Poetry Foundation


 Author 

Omar Pimienta (Tijuana, 1978) is a poet, artist, and scholar whose work explores Transcalifornian cultural production, migration, cultural citizenship, and the spatial and subjective conditions of transborder life. Pimienta is the author of five poetry collections and a collection of short stories. As a visual artist, he received an Art Matters Foundation grant in 2017, and his work has been exhibited internationally. From 2019 to 2022, he was a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte in poetry. Pimienta is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches Transborder Cultural Production and Creative Writing.