Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "mystical"
Book Giveaway For Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de Mes Ames Animales
Book Giveaway For Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de Mes Ames Animales:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Life in Suspension wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book.
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book.
"This is poetry with layers of complexity made of lace — a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
Grace Cavalieri,
The Washington Independent Review of Books
Check out the full review:
http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...
"This is poetry with layers of complexity made of lace — a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
Grace Cavalieri,
The Washington Independent Review of Books Check out the full review:
http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...
CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS: HÉLÈNE CARDONA … POETRY IS LANGUAGE FOR THE INEFFABLE
Check out my interview with Jamie Dedes in The Poet by Day, with excerpts from Dreaming My Animal Selves and Life in Suspension:
https://jamiededes.com/2016/12/22/cel...
CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS (27): HÉLÈNE CARDONA … POETRY IS LANGUAGE FOR THE INEFFABLE, WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE…
https://jamiededes.com/2016/12/22/cel...
CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS (27): HÉLÈNE CARDONA … POETRY IS LANGUAGE FOR THE INEFFABLE, WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE…
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 wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book
Birnam Wood / El Bosque de Birnam, by José Manuel Cardona and translated by Hélène Cardona,
wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book and is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist!
"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
wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book and is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist!"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
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
Hélène Cardona with the Cobalt Poets today!
This week Cobalt Poets presents Hélène Cardona plus open reading:
Hélène Cardona’s Life in Suspension is called “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” by John Ashbery, and David Mason described Dreaming My Animal Selves as “liminal, mystical and other-worldly,” adding, “this is a poet who writes in a rare light.” Hailed as visionary by Richard Wilbur, Cardona’s luminous poetry explores consciousness, the power of place, and ancestral roots. It is poetry of alchemy and healing, a gateway to the unconscious and the dream world. She has authored 5 translations, is the recipient of over 20 awards & honors, and her work has been translated into 19 languages.
Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes Âmes AnimalesLife in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
Tuesday, Aug 15, 7:30 PST.
Signups for the open reading start at 7:15pm in the Zoom Chat.
https://www.facebook.com/events/27835...
When you RSVP, please use your full real name as your Zoom identity so you can be let in, and DM me so I can let Rick Lupert know.
Hélène Cardona’s Life in Suspension is called “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” by John Ashbery, and David Mason described Dreaming My Animal Selves as “liminal, mystical and other-worldly,” adding, “this is a poet who writes in a rare light.” Hailed as visionary by Richard Wilbur, Cardona’s luminous poetry explores consciousness, the power of place, and ancestral roots. It is poetry of alchemy and healing, a gateway to the unconscious and the dream world. She has authored 5 translations, is the recipient of over 20 awards & honors, and her work has been translated into 19 languages.
Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes Âmes AnimalesLife in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
Tuesday, Aug 15, 7:30 PST.Signups for the open reading start at 7:15pm in the Zoom Chat.
https://www.facebook.com/events/27835...
When you RSVP, please use your full real name as your Zoom identity so you can be let in, and DM me so I can let Rick Lupert know.
A Glorious Review of The Abduction by Ron Starbuck, Saint Julian Press Book Reviews
"Hélène Cardona’s masterful translation of The Abduction by French-Syrian poet Maram Al-Masri contains luminescent pages where readers will traverse tidal currents of raw emotion, passionate love, and the sting of separation. Unfurled through motifs of motherhood, nascent innocence, the ache of parting, and the fragility of
memory, the verses offer a rare glimpse into the psyche of a mother torn from her offspring. This collection of poems is a sacred remembrance, reminding the reader of our deep connections between a parent and child and within the family. And the deep sorrows we face when those connections are sundered unexpectedly."
--Julian Press Book Reviews:
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/the-a...
memory, the verses offer a rare glimpse into the psyche of a mother torn from her offspring. This collection of poems is a sacred remembrance, reminding the reader of our deep connections between a parent and child and within the family. And the deep sorrows we face when those connections are sundered unexpectedly."--Julian Press Book Reviews:
http://www.saintjulianpress.com/the-a...
An Evening with White Pine Press: Celebrating its 50th Anniversary
I'll be reading from The Abduction, my new translation of Maram Al Masri:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://helenecardona.com/translations
https://www.whitepine.org/the-abduction
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of White Pine Press at Beyond Baroque! Established in 1973, White Pine Press has been at the forefront in bringing the rich diversity of world literature to the English speaking audience. Publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation from around the world. Join Editor/Publisher Dennis Maloney alongside White Pine-published authors: Hélène Cardona, Tzveta Sofronieva, Yun Wang,
and Christopher Merrill for an evening of poetry readings including new and selected works. The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Gail Wronsky.
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd
Venice Beach
Los Angeles, CA 90291
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://helenecardona.com/translations
https://www.whitepine.org/the-abduction
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of White Pine Press at Beyond Baroque! Established in 1973, White Pine Press has been at the forefront in bringing the rich diversity of world literature to the English speaking audience. Publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation from around the world. Join Editor/Publisher Dennis Maloney alongside White Pine-published authors: Hélène Cardona, Tzveta Sofronieva, Yun Wang,
and Christopher Merrill for an evening of poetry readings including new and selected works. The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Gail Wronsky.Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd
Venice Beach
Los Angeles, CA 90291
Superb review of Life in Suspension in The Antonym
BETWEEN LONGINGS FOR WHAT WAS AND THE EPIPHANIES OF THE BEYOND: A REVIEW OF HÉLÈNE CARDONA’S LIFE IN SUSPENSION:
https://www.theantonymmag.com/between...
Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
"Such yearning towards the divine in Cardona’s poetic voice is reinforced by a proclivity towards enchantment and mysticism."
https://www.theantonymmag.com/between...
Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue"Such yearning towards the divine in Cardona’s poetic voice is reinforced by a proclivity towards enchantment and mysticism."
