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National Translation Month: New translations from French and Spanish by Hélène Cardona

In this installment, we’re happy to share with you

Dreaming My Animal Selves/Le Songe de Mes Ames Animales by Helene Cardona

Hélène Cardona’s wonderful new translations from the French of Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac’s Beyond Elsewhere (Plus loin qu’ailleurs, Editions du Cygne, 2013), and translations from the Spanish of her father José Manuel Cardona’s The Birnam Wood (El Bosque de Birnam, Consell Insular d’Eivissa, 2007).
Cardona presented them at AWP Seattle during the panel Translation as Transformation, Language as Skin: Some Perspectives on Creative Process, accompanied by Sidney Wade, Willis Barnstone, Kazim Ali and Donald Revell. And remember: in February and beyond, read, write, and share your favorite translations.

—Claudia Serea & Loren Kleinman

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Published on February 14, 2015 16:13 • Tags: awp, beyond-elsewhere, claudia-serea, consell-insular-d-eivissa, donald-revell, dreaming-my-animal-selves, editions-du-cygne, el-bosque-de-birnam, english, english-translation, french, french-translation, from-the-euxine-sea, gabriel-arnou-laujeac, helene-cardona, hélène-cardona, inhabited-elegy, kazim-ali, loren-kleinman, national-translation-month, plus-loin-qu-ailleurs, poetry, salmon-poetry, sidney-wade, spanish, the-birnam-wood, translation, translation-as-transformation, willis-barnstone

Birnam Wood reviewed in The Los Angeles Review

Birnam Wood is a spell-binding, spell-bound book. José Manuel Cardona was one of many Spanish intellectuals exiled by the Franco government, and the poems reflect the anguish and longings of the exile, embodied most powerfully in the figure of Odysseus.
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