Helene Cardona's Blog - Posts Tagged "spell-binding"

Birnam Wood / El Bosque de Birnam, by José Manuel Cardona and translated by Hélène Cardona, wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Book and is a 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist!

"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

Birnam Wood is a spell-binding, spell-bound book. José Manuel Cardona was one of many Spanish intellectuals exiled by the Franco government, and the poems reflect the anguish and longings of the exile, embodied most powerfully in the figure of Odysseus.
— Sidney Wade, The Los Angeles Review
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