Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-brooklyn-rail"

Poetry from "Chronic Heart" by Eric Sarner, winner of the Prix Max Jacob 2014, translated by Hélène Cardona, in The Brooklyn Rail’s InTranslation:

http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org...

Translator's Note:
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org

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...

So grateful to Jonathan Taylor for this in depth interview on Everybody's Reviewing:

http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.c...

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