{"product_id":"antuco-by-carlos-soto-roman-carlos-cardani-parra","title":"Antuco by Carlos Soto Román , Carlos Cardani Parra","description":"\u003cp\u003eA molecular accounting of the slow congealing of human flesh, Antuco is a condemnation of the tragedy at the root of authority, the expendability of human life undergirding military hierarchy and the nation-state itself. In the largest peacetime loss of life in Chilean military history, dozens of Chilean conscript soldiers froze to death during a 2005 alpine military training exercise at the Antuco volcano. Engaging documentary and visual modes to submerge the reader in whiteout, Antuco compacts a devastating coagulation of eco-poetics and social poetics to document the tragedy and its aftermath, through hymns and combat clothing labels alongside chemical formulas and military orders. In Antuco’s polyvocality we see the interstices, the crevices from which hegemony seeps, as well as the con-scripted relationship of reader and writer, event and mediation, in the fractured and fracturing parallax frames that we call history. When Cardani Parra and Soto Román write of ice, it is commentary on the social body at large, the shattering consequences of just following orders: \"freezing is a change in the physical state \/ a reordering of the molecular structure.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 2005, young conscripts to the Chilean Army were sent into whiteout conditions on a training mission dressed in cotton-polyester uniforms by officers dressed in 3-layer Gore-Tex Pro. At least forty-four of them died. Carlos Cardani Parra and Carlos Soto Román tell this story through what was left behind—military manuals, maps, weather indices, news headlines, survivors' testimony—and through these documents chart how nationalism is often made out of the bodies the nation state fails to protect.—Juliana Spahr, author of Ars Poeticas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChilean military training, “whiteout conditions,” masculinity, windchill factors… ANTUCO epitomizes an ideal union of political critique and poetic craft. This incessant and inescapable narrative builds with the fury of the storm itself that took the lives of 44 conscripts atop a frigid stratovolcano. Cardani Parra and Soto Román have erected a new monument of words that unrelentingly condemns the necropolitics of military command and control. You’ll never look at winter storms or stormtroopers the same way again.—Mark Nowak, author of Social Poetics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlos Soto Román is a poet and translator. Author of 11 (UDP, 2023 \u0026amp; Municipal Poetry Prize, Santiago, 2018), he has published Chile Project: [Re-Classified] (Gauss PDF, 2013), Bluff (Commune Editions, 2018), *Common Sense *(Make Now Books, 2019), Nature of Objects (Pamenar Press, 2019) and Alternative Set of Procedures (Rosa Press, 2023), among others. He is also the author of the first Spanish translation of Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust. He lives and works in Santiago, Chile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarlos Cardani Parra (Santiago de Chile, 1985) is the author of raso (2009), Pasaje Tala (2010), Caldo de Cardán (2013), and Du Maurier (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cardboard House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68692676804889,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1882\/8385\/files\/1771286482-900.jpg?v=1794625681","url":"https:\/\/otherbooksla.com\/products\/antuco-by-carlos-soto-roman-carlos-cardani-parra","provider":"other books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}