Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "luminous"
Last week for the Goodreads giveaway for Life in Suspension
Goodreads giveaway for Life in Suspension:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
"Life in Suspension is a love song, a hymn to goodness and beauty."
—La Cause Littéraire
This is a collection of poetry to be savored slowly and enjoyed again and again.
—Readers' Favorite, 5 Star Review
"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, winner of the PulitzerPrize, National Book Award, Griffin International Poetry Prize, MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and a National Humanities Medal
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 a Pushcart Prize, National Poetry Series Award, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
"Life in Suspension is a love song, a hymn to goodness and beauty."
—La Cause Littéraire
This is a collection of poetry to be savored slowly and enjoyed again and again.
—Readers' Favorite, 5 Star Review
"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, winner of the PulitzerPrize, National Book Award, Griffin International Poetry Prize, MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and a National Humanities Medal
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 a Pushcart Prize, National Poetry Series Award, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America
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Published on June 18, 2016 18:48
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Other Worlds: Some poems in LIVE ENCOUNTERS-POETRY
Some poems from my new collection Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) and one poem from Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013
) in the magical anthology LIVE ENCOUNTERS-POETRY:
http://liveencounters.net/live-encoun...
Beautiful editorial and poems from The Mind (Salmon Poetry) by John FitzGerald.








http://liveencounters.net/live-encoun...
Beautiful editorial and poems from The Mind (Salmon Poetry) by John FitzGerald.
Published on October 22, 2016 23:30
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Life in Suspension was chosen as a Finalist for the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Poetry
Life in Suspension was chosen as a Finalist for the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Deep gratitude to
Stephen Parrish and everyone at The Lascaux Review.
http://lascauxreview.com/contest-resu...



http://lascauxreview.com/contest-resu...
Published on June 26, 2017 21:15
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Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry) is the winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry!
I'm thrilled, honored and grateful that Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry) is the winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry 😘.
Life in Suspension on the Salmon Poetry website: http://bit.ly/2rV9cMA
Life in Suspension on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2rxpk6v
http://helenecardona.com/life-in-susp...
2017 Best Book Awards
Sponsored by American Book Fest
The 14th Annual Best Book Awards have just been announced!
http://americanbookfest.com/2017bbapr...
"Thank you to the thousands of authors and publishers who participated in our 14th annual Best Book Awards. Every year brings incredible entries from all of the world. We will continue to feature quality mainstream, indie, and self-published books now and in the future! CONGRATULATIONS to all of the winners and finalists!"
—Jeffrey Keen, President & CEO, American Book Fest
"Hélène Cardona has delivered to us a book in which she celebrates the magic of parallel worlds. Two languages, two persons, one testimony. Not so much a disclosure of truth, as much as the revelation of doubt. What sways above the emptiness is a life lived in complete awe. Cardona balances over a cosmos of fragments. The sparkling, the reflections do not throw back a perfect mirror image. Lives are shared, not possessed. The result is a song for the acceptance of doubleness, pluralism. Hélène Cardona provides synthesis for what is inevitably separated."
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Antonio D’Alfonso, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 22, Vol. 11, No. 2
Life in Suspension on the Salmon Poetry website: http://bit.ly/2rV9cMA
Life in Suspension on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2rxpk6v
http://helenecardona.com/life-in-susp...
2017 Best Book Awards
Sponsored by American Book Fest
The 14th Annual Best Book Awards have just been announced!
http://americanbookfest.com/2017bbapr...
"Thank you to the thousands of authors and publishers who participated in our 14th annual Best Book Awards. Every year brings incredible entries from all of the world. We will continue to feature quality mainstream, indie, and self-published books now and in the future! CONGRATULATIONS to all of the winners and finalists!"
—Jeffrey Keen, President & CEO, American Book Fest
"Hélène Cardona has delivered to us a book in which she celebrates the magic of parallel worlds. Two languages, two persons, one testimony. Not so much a disclosure of truth, as much as the revelation of doubt. What sways above the emptiness is a life lived in complete awe. Cardona balances over a cosmos of fragments. The sparkling, the reflections do not throw back a perfect mirror image. Lives are shared, not possessed. The result is a song for the acceptance of doubleness, pluralism. Hélène Cardona provides synthesis for what is inevitably separated."
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Published on November 11, 2017 09:02
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Life in Suspension is a 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist
Great news! "Life in Suspension" (Salmon Poetry) is a Finalist in the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Awards!
Congrats to the winner "Calling a Wolf a Wolf" by Kaveh Akbar and to Christopher Merrill with "Self-Portrait with Dogwood" for being short-listed for the Grand Prize.
#HofferAward
Congrats to the winner "Calling a Wolf a Wolf" by Kaveh Akbar and to Christopher Merrill with "Self-Portrait with Dogwood" for being short-listed for the Grand Prize.
#HofferAward



Published on May 14, 2018 13:30
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Life in Suspension reviewed in At the Inkwell:
"so
luminous and fanciful that you can stumble around for hours within it, lose track of time almost, and fall out the other end feeling lighter and like you just traveled to another time and place."
Elizabeth Cohen reviews Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue in At the Inkwell: https://attheinkwell.com/la-vie-suspe...
"Read this book if you want to experience straightforward beauty."
~Elizabeth Cohen, At the Inkwell



Elizabeth Cohen reviews Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue in At the Inkwell: https://attheinkwell.com/la-vie-suspe...
"Read this book if you want to experience straightforward beauty."
~Elizabeth Cohen, At the Inkwell
Published on August 17, 2018 15:04
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