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Exhibition Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress

Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress

<em><span lang="es">La casa que habla</span></em>

A book shaped like a house is opened to the first page. The right side shows the title and author and is decorated with engraved illustrations of the bricks, a guitar, wheels, and insects. The engravings are highlighted with thick black lines. Poems written in Spanish are printed on the left side, including on the triangular piece that makes part of the roof.
Denise Montiel Engelhardt, La casa que habla (The House That Talks), Holguin, Cuba: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2019, Rare Book & Special Collections
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La casa que habla

La casa que habla combines the words of Mexican poet Denise Montiel Engelhardt with tactile illustrations and an iconic architectural form that transforms with the reader from a two-dimensional book to a model home. Publishing house Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro produces books illustrated with hand-carved engravings by renowned Cuban artists to demonstrate the important emotional and physical relationship between creators and readers.