Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "enchantment"
Julie's Reviews > Dreaming My Animal Selves/Le Songe de Mes Ames Animales
Into the liminal space between dreams and conscious thought slips this slim enchantment. I read these poems aloud in French, then silently in English, and once I came to the end, I turned back and started again....
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
...Hélène Cardona's poetry is exquisite, sensual, mysterious. She shows the body and soul seeking harmony, batting against the bars of the conscious mind to be released into flights of imagination in verses at once earthy and
ethereal.
To read the whole review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
...Hélène Cardona's poetry is exquisite, sensual, mysterious. She shows the body and soul seeking harmony, batting against the bars of the conscious mind to be released into flights of imagination in verses at once earthy and
ethereal.To read the whole review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
To celebrate the 3rd printing of Life in Suspension I created a giveaway!
To celebrate the 3rd printing of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry) I created a giveaway:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Enter for a chance to win a signed copy of the new printing of Life in Suspension, called “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” by John Ashbery.
Life in Suspension is hailed as visionary by Richard Wilbur. It explores consciousness, the power of place, and ancestral roots. It is poetry of alchemy and healing, a gateway to the unconscious and the dream world.
Stephen Yenser calls Life in Suspension “a terrific and singular achievement,” and Joanne Harris declares it deeply spiritual, “a tour de force of language and phonetics.”
"This is poetry with layers of complexity made of lace — a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
—Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Extraordinary, magical, and poignant."
—Guy Sangster-Adams, The Cultural Pick
"In this bilingual edition of her poems Hélène Cardona is our contemporary ecstatic, time-traveler, and shape-shifter. Behind the dreamlike atmosphere of her poems lies a fierce will to discover beauty, to resurrect ancient enchantments, and to defend enigmas of the spirit. "I like transforming into an animal, / devouring who I was," she writes. Her luminous poems celebrate the
imagination's power to dignify and exalt our highest yearnings."
—Lee Upton
Winner of the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book and the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Enter for a chance to win a signed copy of the new printing of Life in Suspension, called “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” by John Ashbery.
Life in Suspension is hailed as visionary by Richard Wilbur. It explores consciousness, the power of place, and ancestral roots. It is poetry of alchemy and healing, a gateway to the unconscious and the dream world.
Stephen Yenser calls Life in Suspension “a terrific and singular achievement,” and Joanne Harris declares it deeply spiritual, “a tour de force of language and phonetics.”
"This is poetry with layers of complexity made of lace — a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
—Grace Cavalieri, The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Extraordinary, magical, and poignant."
—Guy Sangster-Adams, The Cultural Pick
"In this bilingual edition of her poems Hélène Cardona is our contemporary ecstatic, time-traveler, and shape-shifter. Behind the dreamlike atmosphere of her poems lies a fierce will to discover beauty, to resurrect ancient enchantments, and to defend enigmas of the spirit. "I like transforming into an animal, / devouring who I was," she writes. Her luminous poems celebrate the
imagination's power to dignify and exalt our highest yearnings."—Lee Upton
Winner of the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book and the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry.
Superb review of Life in Suspension in The Antonym
BETWEEN LONGINGS FOR WHAT WAS AND THE EPIPHANIES OF THE BEYOND: A REVIEW OF HÉLÈNE CARDONA’S LIFE IN SUSPENSION:
https://www.theantonymmag.com/between...
Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
"Such yearning towards the divine in Cardona’s poetic voice is reinforced by a proclivity towards enchantment and mysticism."
https://www.theantonymmag.com/between...
Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue"Such yearning towards the divine in Cardona’s poetic voice is reinforced by a proclivity towards enchantment and mysticism."
