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Birnam Wood reviewed by Rustin Larson in The Iowa Source
Birnam Wood / El Bosque de Birnam (Salmon Poetry, 2018) is reviewed by Rustin Larson in The Iowa Source:
https://www.iowasource.com/2018/06/29...
"In years, I have not read a poetry more expansive, gripping, and beautiful for the
true music of language. I have been enthusiastically revitalized by the recent encounter with the poetry of José Manual Cardona, masterfully translated by his daughter, poet Hélène Cardona. In her hands, Birnam Wood sings to us in a rendering that is lush and passionate." —Rustin Larson, The Iowa Source
https://www.iowasource.com/2018/06/29...
"In years, I have not read a poetry more expansive, gripping, and beautiful for the
true music of language. I have been enthusiastically revitalized by the recent encounter with the poetry of José Manual Cardona, masterfully translated by his daughter, poet Hélène Cardona. In her hands, Birnam Wood sings to us in a rendering that is lush and passionate." —Rustin Larson, The Iowa Source
Birnam Wood in Mediterranean Poetry
"We arrived and the miracle happened.
It was the sea and the wind in the bells.
We came from far, from years
Thirsty as dust, from humble
fishermen’s nets on barren shore."
—José Manuel Cardona, from "Birnam Wood"
Read more on Mediterranean Poetry:
https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=4225
From Birnam Wood, my translation of El Bosque de Birnam by my father José Manuel Cardona, the poet from Ibiza. In a bilingual edition from Salmon Poetry.
It was the sea and the wind in the bells.
We came from far, from years
Thirsty as dust, from humble
fishermen’s nets on barren shore."
—José Manuel Cardona, from "Birnam Wood"
Read more on Mediterranean Poetry:
https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=4225
From Birnam Wood, my translation of El Bosque de Birnam by my father José Manuel Cardona, the poet from Ibiza. In a bilingual edition from Salmon Poetry.
Birnam Wood is a World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2018
"Birnam Wood" (Salmon Poetry), my translation from Spanish of "El Bosque de Birnam" (Consell Insular d'Eivissa, Ibiza, Spain) by
José Manuel Cardona, is in World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018!
http://ow.ly/ab5g30mWAUt
José Manuel Cardona, is in World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2018! http://ow.ly/ab5g30mWAUt
Birnam Wood wins the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry!
From American Books Fest:
http://www.americanbookfest.com/gener...
Birnam Wood is one of the most impressive collections of poetry I’ve read in recent years.
It is a work that can sit easily beside Seferis’s great poems of exile and return, or beside Elytis’s gigantic sequence of the Albanian campaign. This is Europe yearning: ‘Exalted were you in my dreams,/ Almost inaccessible like an island/ Sought and sought for years.’ —Thomas McCarthy, Poetry International
http://www.americanbookfest.com/gener...
Birnam Wood is one of the most impressive collections of poetry I’ve read in recent years.
It is a work that can sit easily beside Seferis’s great poems of exile and return, or beside Elytis’s gigantic sequence of the Albanian campaign. This is Europe yearning: ‘Exalted were you in my dreams,/ Almost inaccessible like an island/ Sought and sought for years.’ —Thomas McCarthy, Poetry International
