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Review of Life in Suspension by Anthony DiMatteo in The Los Angeles Review

Review of Life in Suspension by Anthony DiMatteo in The Los Angeles Review:

"Cardona creates semantic nuances that light up in multiple directions, while her writing pays close heed to the base level of syntax, rhythm, line and sentence. A tender, pensile world that merits repeated line by line explorations

Life in Suspension La Vie Suspendue by Helene Cardona

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Birnam Wood reviewed in The Los Angeles Review

Birnam Wood is a spell-binding, spell-bound book. José Manuel Cardona was one of many Spanish intellectuals exiled by the Franco government, and the poems reflect the anguish and longings of the exile, embodied most powerfully in the figure of Odysseus.
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