Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "beautiful"
Poetry Rules: Hélène Cardona’s Dreaming My Animal Selves. A Review.
This bilingual collection is imbued with such an unparalleled
grace that one cannot help feeling captured by Nature’s most holy places and creatures, as in Charles Baudelaire’s “Correspondances.”
Exquisite review by Alessandra Bava of Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales (Salmon Poetry):
http://poetryrulesbyalessandrabava.bl...

Exquisite review by Alessandra Bava of Dreaming My Animal Selves: Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales (Salmon Poetry):
http://poetryrulesbyalessandrabava.bl...
Published on January 20, 2015 02:02
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Birnam Wood in Mediterranean Poetry
"We arrived and the miracle happened.
It was the sea and the wind in the bells.
We came from far, from years
Thirsty as dust, from humble
fishermen’s nets on barren shore."
—José Manuel Cardona, from "Birnam Wood"
Read more on Mediterranean Poetry:
https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=4225
From Birnam Wood, my translation of El Bosque de Birnam by my father José Manuel Cardona, the poet from Ibiza. In a bilingual edition from Salmon Poetry.
It was the sea and the wind in the bells.
We came from far, from years
Thirsty as dust, from humble
fishermen’s nets on barren shore."
—José Manuel Cardona, from "Birnam Wood"
Read more on Mediterranean Poetry:
https://www.odyssey.pm/?p=4225
From Birnam Wood, my translation of El Bosque de Birnam by my father José Manuel Cardona, the poet from Ibiza. In a bilingual edition from Salmon Poetry.



Published on November 17, 2018 16:23
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Birnam Wood reviewed in Bookaccino
Rachael Daum's transcendent review of BIRNAM WOOD by José Manuel Cardona (Salmon Poetry) on
Bookaccino:
https://bookaccino817043219.wordpress...
"In a world that needs more witches, this collection is a joy to read: the author gives the power to the reader to create the witch, our Circe, and carry her name and spells with us."
To read the full review:
https://bookaccino817043219.wordpress...



https://bookaccino817043219.wordpress...
"In a world that needs more witches, this collection is a joy to read: the author gives the power to the reader to create the witch, our Circe, and carry her name and spells with us."
To read the full review:
https://bookaccino817043219.wordpress...
Published on July 08, 2019 19:35
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