Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "rumi"
In French! Le mot juste en anglais
Professeur Michele Druon interviews me in "Le mot juste en anglais" where we discuss literature, life and consciousness.
http://le-mot-juste-en-anglais.typepa...
http://le-mot-juste-en-anglais.typepa...
The Inaugural Issue of Life and Legends is up!
The Inaugural Issue of Life and Legends is up!
www.lifeandlegends.com
Delighted to have been invited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis as Contributing Editor
& to participate in this issue as well as present:
Jenny Factor, Robert Pinsky, David Mason, Christopher Merrill, Jennifer Reeser, Kim Dower,
Dennis Maloney, Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac: translation by Hélène Cardona, Marie Lecrivain,
Miguel Barnet, translation by George Henson, Erna R. Cooper, Margaret Saine, Charles Harper Webb, Kate Gale, Lee Upton,
Mariano Zaro, Sarah Maclay, Marc Vincenz,
Ralph Angel, Diann Blakely,
Laurel Ann Bogen, Sonnet Mondal, Willis Barnstone, John FitzGerald, Michelle Bitting, James Ragan,
Rodica Draghincescu: translation by Howard Scott. With Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay,
Yahia Lababidi, Khursheed Hayat, Michelle Chung,
Abrar Ahmed: translation by Salma Jilani,
Satyapal Anand,
Sarojini Sahoo: translation by Jagadish Mohanty, Dean Pasch,
William O'Daly, Thích Nhất Hạnh,
Hareprakash Upadhyay: translation by
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Naseer Ahmed Nasir: translation by Dr. Bina Biswas, Rumi
& many more.
Book reviews: John Fitzgerald's Favorite Bedtime Stories (Salmon Poetry) by Erna Cooper, and Marc Vincenz's Mao's Mole (Neo Poiesis Press) by Hélène Cardona.
www.lifeandlegends.com
Delighted to have been invited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis as Contributing Editor
& to participate in this issue as well as present:
Jenny Factor, Robert Pinsky, David Mason, Christopher Merrill, Jennifer Reeser, Kim Dower,
Dennis Maloney, Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac: translation by Hélène Cardona, Marie Lecrivain,
Miguel Barnet, translation by George Henson, Erna R. Cooper, Margaret Saine, Charles Harper Webb, Kate Gale, Lee Upton,
Mariano Zaro, Sarah Maclay, Marc Vincenz,
Ralph Angel, Diann Blakely,
Laurel Ann Bogen, Sonnet Mondal, Willis Barnstone, John FitzGerald, Michelle Bitting, James Ragan,
Rodica Draghincescu: translation by Howard Scott. With Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay,
Yahia Lababidi, Khursheed Hayat, Michelle Chung,
Abrar Ahmed: translation by Salma Jilani,
Satyapal Anand,
Sarojini Sahoo: translation by Jagadish Mohanty, Dean Pasch,
William O'Daly, Thích Nhất Hạnh,
Hareprakash Upadhyay: translation by
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Naseer Ahmed Nasir: translation by Dr. Bina Biswas, Rumi
& many more. Book reviews: John Fitzgerald's Favorite Bedtime Stories (Salmon Poetry) by Erna Cooper, and Marc Vincenz's Mao's Mole (Neo Poiesis Press) by Hélène Cardona.
A superb review of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry) by Michel Cazenave, one of France's greatest literary critics.
Michel Cazenave reviews
Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales / Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry) in Recours au poème:
Notre relation au monde
http://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/chroniqu...
Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales / Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry) in Recours au poème:Notre relation au monde
http://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/chroniqu...
Life in Suspension reviewed by J.C. Hallman in The Brooklyn Rail
A Poet is a Mood: Life in Suspension reviewed by J.C. Hallman in The Brooklyn Rail
"The
dual-language aspect of this surprising volume, which just as often will have you thinking of Rumi and Rilke and Neruda, offers a unique archaeology-style pleasure of penetrating a psychic poetic cavity that generally remains undisturbed... And… you remember being with the poet for these moments stolen from an unlikely life."
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/12/b...
"But Cardona is different, I think, and [her] dissertation on James is the clue. In both letters and fiction, James asserted that all the arts are one, and what he meant was that a novel can aspire to do what the gigantic Tintorettos in the Louvre do. In short, we should no sooner segregate media than people....[These poems] compile to form the chronicle of a traveler, without fixed language, without fixed nationality or profession, moving physically from Bar Harbor to Chalkidiki (it’s Greece), and emotionally from the calm of floating alone on a lake to the inner hurricane of watching a loved one slip from this world to the next. En route, there are these poetic hesitations, the vibrancy of life trapped in amber."
Read the full review: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/12/b...
"The
dual-language aspect of this surprising volume, which just as often will have you thinking of Rumi and Rilke and Neruda, offers a unique archaeology-style pleasure of penetrating a psychic poetic cavity that generally remains undisturbed... And… you remember being with the poet for these moments stolen from an unlikely life."http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/12/b...
"But Cardona is different, I think, and [her] dissertation on James is the clue. In both letters and fiction, James asserted that all the arts are one, and what he meant was that a novel can aspire to do what the gigantic Tintorettos in the Louvre do. In short, we should no sooner segregate media than people....[These poems] compile to form the chronicle of a traveler, without fixed language, without fixed nationality or profession, moving physically from Bar Harbor to Chalkidiki (it’s Greece), and emotionally from the calm of floating alone on a lake to the inner hurricane of watching a loved one slip from this world to the next. En route, there are these poetic hesitations, the vibrancy of life trapped in amber."
Read the full review: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/12/b...
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…
Life in Suspension reviewed by Alison Williams in Poetry International
Hélène Cardona’s poems in Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue reflect a linguistic spiritual transcendence that is illuminated on every page. —Alison Williams, Poetry International
http://poetryinternationalonline.com/...
Cardona’s language is descended from the great mystics, with words and phrases plucked directly from the natural world, like an arm reaching to grasp a leaf floating in the air. In speaking of her grandfather in the poem “Stone,” she writes “we have the same ear for reading / the bones in the wind / and breaking down the sun.”
http://poetryinternationalonline.com/...
Cardona’s language is descended from the great mystics, with words and phrases plucked directly from the natural world, like an arm reaching to grasp a leaf floating in the air. In speaking of her grandfather in the poem “Stone,” she writes “we have the same ear for reading / the bones in the wind / and breaking down the sun.”
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."
