Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "mythology"
Myth, Memory, and Transcendence in Hélène Cardona’s Dreaming My Animal Selves
Book Review in World Literature Today by Erna Cooper
Myth, Memory, and Transcendence in Hélène Cardona’s Dreaming My Animal Selves:
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Published on March 27, 2015 18:04
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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:
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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.



Published on November 17, 2018 16:23
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Birnam Wood wins the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry!
From American Books Fest:
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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
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Birnam Wood is one of the most impressive collections of poetry I’ve read in recent years.



Published on November 20, 2019 13:00
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