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Fourth Sundays: Poetry at the Claremont Library with Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald
The Friends of the Claremont Library proudly present a reading by Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald, reading from their new books, Dreaming my Animal Selves and Favorite Bedtime Stories, respectively.
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Light snacks will be provided, and poets will have copies of their books available for purchase.
August 24, 2014 @ 2 PM
The Claremont Public Library
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Light snacks will be provided, and poets will have copies of their books available for purchase.
August 24, 2014 @ 2 PM
The Claremont Public Library
208 N. Harvard Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Fantastic review by Amélie Frank of The Mind By John Fitzgerald
Fantastic review by Amélie Frank of The Mind By John Fitzgerald:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
f I were still working with John FitzGerald (in the interest of full disclosure, we worked together at Red Hen Press), I would nudge him and say of his book THE MIND, "Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
My sense of John is that he has been aware of himself for a long time, but not in a solipsistic or narcissistic way at all. He is a keen observer, a consumer of origins, fine distinctions, continua, grand schemes, and minute details. He likely began observing and contemplating information from the moment he experienced the glare of light in the delivery room, and he has never stopped.
Interestingly, while THE MIND is about the remarkable way John thinks, it speaks to the larger questions of how we all think, how we came to be sapient in the first place, and how we develop as thinking souls in space and time. Keeping the language of his prose-like tercets basic, unadorned, and free-flowing, he accomplishes poetry of significance and elemental beauty. Left brain contemplation of structure and systems aligns itself with right brain wonder and whimsy, but neither hemisphere dominates in the work, so the reader can only expect the unexpected. And the rewards are great: poems of curiosity, orientation with the universe, sorrow, finding center, and surprising hilarity. (Only John can make the idea of rocks funny.)
If I were teaching from John's book, I would encourage poetry students to examine his masterful skill with personification. I would encourage philosophy students to wrestle with his experiences of phenomena. I would ask psychology and neuro-biology candidates to experience the brain from inside-out. I would ask physics students to explore how we process space and time in an era when such concepts are continually challenged and updated. I would ask divinity students to consider creation from the point of view of the created. THE MIND weighs so many approaches to thinking and being that you won't devour it in one or two sittings. Read it as you would the Book of Genesis, or Hawking, or an introduction to meditation. You will not think the same way ever again after reading it.
Amélie Frank
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
f I were still working with John FitzGerald (in the interest of full disclosure, we worked together at Red Hen Press), I would nudge him and say of his book THE MIND, "Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
My sense of John is that he has been aware of himself for a long time, but not in a solipsistic or narcissistic way at all. He is a keen observer, a consumer of origins, fine distinctions, continua, grand schemes, and minute details. He likely began observing and contemplating information from the moment he experienced the glare of light in the delivery room, and he has never stopped.
Interestingly, while THE MIND is about the remarkable way John thinks, it speaks to the larger questions of how we all think, how we came to be sapient in the first place, and how we develop as thinking souls in space and time. Keeping the language of his prose-like tercets basic, unadorned, and free-flowing, he accomplishes poetry of significance and elemental beauty. Left brain contemplation of structure and systems aligns itself with right brain wonder and whimsy, but neither hemisphere dominates in the work, so the reader can only expect the unexpected. And the rewards are great: poems of curiosity, orientation with the universe, sorrow, finding center, and surprising hilarity. (Only John can make the idea of rocks funny.)
If I were teaching from John's book, I would encourage poetry students to examine his masterful skill with personification. I would encourage philosophy students to wrestle with his experiences of phenomena. I would ask psychology and neuro-biology candidates to experience the brain from inside-out. I would ask physics students to explore how we process space and time in an era when such concepts are continually challenged and updated. I would ask divinity students to consider creation from the point of view of the created. THE MIND weighs so many approaches to thinking and being that you won't devour it in one or two sittings. Read it as you would the Book of Genesis, or Hawking, or an introduction to meditation. You will not think the same way ever again after reading it.
Amélie Frank
DREAMS, LANGUAGE and POETRY: Oct 25, 5-7 pm Alliance française de Pasadena
DREAMS, LANGUAGE and POETRY: a conversation with the trilingual poet, translator and actress HELENE CARDONA, on her latest book “Le Songe de mes Ames Animales/ Dreaming My Animal Selves.”
We will explore bridging languages and cultures and discuss literature, poetry, translation, theatre and cinema, dream work, and the quest for spirituality and expansion of consciousness.
Moderated by Dr. Michele Druon.
http://afdepasadena.org/events/2014/1...
DREAMING MY ANIMAL SELVES is an intriguingly surreal journey through myth, legend, fantasy, and more – all guided by a shape-shifting narrator searching far and wide for cosmic unity within the discontinuous landscape of dream and the dreamy, fragmented quality of the everyday world. The dual-language text (
English and French) works to heighten the narrator’s shifting perceptions, symbol by symbol, vision by vision.
In FRENCH and ENGLISH
DRINKS and SNACKS will be served after the presentation. Free for AF members and $10 for non-members
We will explore bridging languages and cultures and discuss literature, poetry, translation, theatre and cinema, dream work, and the quest for spirituality and expansion of consciousness.
Moderated by Dr. Michele Druon.
http://afdepasadena.org/events/2014/1...
DREAMING MY ANIMAL SELVES is an intriguingly surreal journey through myth, legend, fantasy, and more – all guided by a shape-shifting narrator searching far and wide for cosmic unity within the discontinuous landscape of dream and the dreamy, fragmented quality of the everyday world. The dual-language text (
English and French) works to heighten the narrator’s shifting perceptions, symbol by symbol, vision by vision. In FRENCH and ENGLISH
DRINKS and SNACKS will be served after the presentation. Free for AF members and $10 for non-members
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...
Jonathan Taylor interviews Hélène Cardona on Everybody's Reviewing
So grateful to Jonathan Taylor for this in depth interview on
Everybody's Reviewing:
http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.c...
We discuss poetry, linguistics, dreams, myth, the arts, translation, acting, and more.
Everybody's Reviewing: http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.c...
We discuss poetry, linguistics, dreams, myth, the arts, translation, acting, and more.
