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HÉLÈNE CARDONA is a poet, literary translator, and actor, author of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), The Abduction (Maram Al-Masri, White Pine Press), Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, Salmon Poetry), Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press), Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux, Éd. du Cygne) and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press). Winner: Albertine & FACE Foundation Grant, Hemingway Grant, Independent Press Award, NYC Big Book Award, Readers' Favorite Book Award, Best Book Award, Pinnacle Best Bilingual Book Award, Julie Suk Honor, International Book Award...
Hélène holds an MA in American Literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College & Loyola Marymount Universit ...more

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I'll read Sunday April 21st at the LA Times Book Festival

I'll be reading at 3:20-3:40 pm on the Poetry Stage, at the Los Angeles Festival of Books, USC.
Free event.
Followed by a Book signing at Small World Books, Area 2, next to the Poetry Stage.

Life in Suspension La Vie Suspendue by Helene Cardona

Dreaming My Animal Selves Le Songe de mes Ames Animales (Bilingual Collection in French and English) by Helene Cardona

Birnam Wood El Bosque de Birnam (English and Spanish Edition) by José Manuel Cardona

Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac

Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue Birnam Wood: El Bosque de Birnam Birnam Wood: El Bosque de Birnam The Abduction Read more of this blog post »

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	Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales 4.77 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue 4.84 avg rating — 82 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birnam Wood: El Bosque de Birnam by José Manuel Cardona, Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.79 avg rating — 39 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac (Goodreads Author), Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Astonished Universe 4.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology by Jessie Lendennie (Editor), Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jordan Taylor (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Abduction by Maram Al-Masri, Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience by Mark L. Tompkins (Editor), Jennifer McMahon (Editor), Helene Cardona (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women by Melissa Hassard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gabrielle Langley (Editor), Stacy Nigliazzo (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“In dreaming
we travel to a place where all is forgiven.”
― Helene Cardona, Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales

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“We are consciousness wanting to expand.”
― Helene Cardona, Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales

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“The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe.
The ultimate aim is love for life.
The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself.”
― Helene Cardona, Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Ames Animales

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“On the wall of time to come
a window appears.
I open it, let angels in.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

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“I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.”
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“We packed
whole lives into bundles in search
of what chooses us, what wants to come
back to the surface, what needs to be said.
We had so many dreams
we didn’t know what to make of them.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

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“You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

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message 2: by MRITYUNJAY

Jun 10, 2013 02:48AM

HELENE CARDONA is a gifted artist whose at-home-in kinda capability gives an unique dimension to her artistic oeuvre and most pronounced aspect in her is her innate power of blending cinema with poetry that results into an abiding presence of VISUALITY unto her poems!

Reading her poems is like hearing. seeing, feeling all at the same time and this picturesqueness comes to her effortlessly !

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message 1: by Ron

Apr 06, 2013 09:18AM

There is such a depth and richness within Helene's new book "Dreaming My Animal Selves" that you must experience on your own. You simply must!

http://saintjulianpress.com/dreaming-...

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