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DREAMS, LANGUAGE and POETRY: Oct 25, 5-7 pm Alliance française de Pasadena
DREAMS, LANGUAGE and POETRY: a conversation with the trilingual poet, translator and actress HELENE CARDONA, on her latest book “Le Songe de mes Ames Animales/ Dreaming My Animal Selves.”
We will explore bridging languages and cultures and discuss literature, poetry, translation, theatre and cinema, dream work, and the quest for spirituality and expansion of consciousness.
Moderated by Dr. Michele Druon.
http://afdepasadena.org/events/2014/1...
DREAMING MY ANIMAL SELVES is an intriguingly surreal journey through myth, legend, fantasy, and more – all guided by a shape-shifting narrator searching far and wide for cosmic unity within the discontinuous landscape of dream and the dreamy, fragmented quality of the everyday world. The dual-language text (
English and French) works to heighten the narrator’s shifting perceptions, symbol by symbol, vision by vision.
In FRENCH and ENGLISH
DRINKS and SNACKS will be served after the presentation. Free for AF members and $10 for non-members
We will explore bridging languages and cultures and discuss literature, poetry, translation, theatre and cinema, dream work, and the quest for spirituality and expansion of consciousness.
Moderated by Dr. Michele Druon.
http://afdepasadena.org/events/2014/1...
DREAMING MY ANIMAL SELVES is an intriguingly surreal journey through myth, legend, fantasy, and more – all guided by a shape-shifting narrator searching far and wide for cosmic unity within the discontinuous landscape of dream and the dreamy, fragmented quality of the everyday world. The dual-language text (
English and French) works to heighten the narrator’s shifting perceptions, symbol by symbol, vision by vision. In FRENCH and ENGLISH
DRINKS and SNACKS will be served after the presentation. Free for AF members and $10 for non-members
Life in Suspension is Editor's Pick at Foreword Reviews!
Fabulous review of Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (Salmon Poetry, 2016) by Matt Sutherland from Foreword Reviews! What a treat, I'm deeply grateful and very happy with this pleasant surprise. Editor's Pick, Five hearts!
To read the review:
https://www.forewordreviews.com/revie...
To read the review:
https://www.forewordreviews.com/revie...
Life in Suspension reviewed by J.C. Hallman in The Brooklyn Rail
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...
"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...
Life in Suspension wins the 2020 Independent Press Award
#IndependentPressAward in Poetry
#2020GabbyBookAward
"Dappled with transparent imagery, like the Mediterranean sunlight she grew up with, Hélène Cardona’s poems offer a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse." —John Ashbery
"Life in Suspension is a terrific and singular achievement. Very few poets I know could accomplish anything like it, let alone with such grace and clarity." —Stephen Yenser
"A tour de force of language and phonetics. Hélène Cardona’s pen moves from the human to the divine and back in a single sentence, and the result is uplifting and
magical." —Joanne Harris
https://www.independentpressaward.com...
#2020GabbyBookAward
"Dappled with transparent imagery, like the Mediterranean sunlight she grew up with, Hélène Cardona’s poems offer a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse." —John Ashbery
"Life in Suspension is a terrific and singular achievement. Very few poets I know could accomplish anything like it, let alone with such grace and clarity." —Stephen Yenser
"A tour de force of language and phonetics. Hélène Cardona’s pen moves from the human to the divine and back in a single sentence, and the result is uplifting and
magical." —Joanne Harris https://www.independentpressaward.com...
