Helene Cardona's Blog, page 4
July 30, 2018
Birnam Wood reviewed by Rustin Larson in The Iowa Source
Birnam Wood / El Bosque de Birnam (Salmon Poetry, 2018) is reviewed by Rustin Larson in The Iowa Source:
https://www.iowasource.com/2018/06/29...
"In years, I have not read a poetry more expansive, gripping, and beautiful for the
true music of language. I have been enthusiastically revitalized by the recent encounter with the poetry of José Manual Cardona, masterfully translated by his daughter, poet Hélène Cardona. In her hands, Birnam Wood sings to us in a rendering that is lush and passionate." —Rustin Larson, The Iowa Source
https://www.iowasource.com/2018/06/29...
"In years, I have not read a poetry more expansive, gripping, and beautiful for the
true music of language. I have been enthusiastically revitalized by the recent encounter with the poetry of José Manual Cardona, masterfully translated by his daughter, poet Hélène Cardona. In her hands, Birnam Wood sings to us in a rendering that is lush and passionate." —Rustin Larson, The Iowa Source
May 14, 2018
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
January 19, 2018
An Enchanted Reading of Poetry and Translations!
You're invited to join Martha Rhodes, Hélène Cardona, John FitzGerald, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler at Beyond Baroque for An Enchanted Reading of Poetry & Translations!
Saturday January 20th @ 8PM at Beyond Baroque
beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Martha Rhodes, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler, John FitzGerald and Hélène Cardona will read from recents works.
Please join us with Richard Modiano at Beyond Baroque.
Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of
Four Way Books and lives in New York City.
John FitzGerald’s most recent books are Favorite Bedtime Stories and The Mind, both from Salmon Poetry. Other works include Primate and The Essence of Life.
Hélène Cardona’s 7 books include Life in Suspension, the translations of Dorianne Laux’s What We Carry, Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, Birnam Wood, and Hemingway Grant winner Beyond Elsewhere. Acting credits include Chocolat, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hundred-Foot Journey, For Serendipity.
Carolyn L. Tipton teaches at U.C. Berkeley. She has won fellowships from both the N.E.H. and the N.E.A. Her first book, To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti, won the National Translation Award. Her new book of translated poems by Alberti, Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance, won the Cliff Becker Translation Prize.
Stephen Kessler's translations of Luis Cernuda have received a Lambda Literary Award, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Center USA translation award.
Regular admission. Members FREE
Saturday January 20th @ 8PM at Beyond Baroque
beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Martha Rhodes, Carolyn Tipton, Stephen Kessler, John FitzGerald and Hélène Cardona will read from recents works.
Please join us with Richard Modiano at Beyond Baroque.
Martha Rhodes is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Thin Wall (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of
Four Way Books and lives in New York City.John FitzGerald’s most recent books are Favorite Bedtime Stories and The Mind, both from Salmon Poetry. Other works include Primate and The Essence of Life.
Hélène Cardona’s 7 books include Life in Suspension, the translations of Dorianne Laux’s What We Carry, Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings, Birnam Wood, and Hemingway Grant winner Beyond Elsewhere. Acting credits include Chocolat, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hundred-Foot Journey, For Serendipity.
Carolyn L. Tipton teaches at U.C. Berkeley. She has won fellowships from both the N.E.H. and the N.E.A. Her first book, To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti, won the National Translation Award. Her new book of translated poems by Alberti, Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance, won the Cliff Becker Translation Prize.
Stephen Kessler's translations of Luis Cernuda have received a Lambda Literary Award, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Center USA translation award.
Regular admission. Members FREE
January 2, 2018
Life in Suspension reviewed by Alison Williams in Poetry International
Hélène Cardona’s poems in Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue reflect a linguistic spiritual transcendence that is illuminated on every page. —Alison Williams, Poetry International
http://poetryinternationalonline.com/...
Cardona’s language is descended from the great mystics, with words and phrases plucked directly from the natural world, like an arm reaching to grasp a leaf floating in the air. In speaking of her grandfather in the poem “Stone,” she writes “we have the same ear for reading / the bones in the wind / and breaking down the sun.”
http://poetryinternationalonline.com/...
Cardona’s language is descended from the great mystics, with words and phrases plucked directly from the natural world, like an arm reaching to grasp a leaf floating in the air. In speaking of her grandfather in the poem “Stone,” she writes “we have the same ear for reading / the bones in the wind / and breaking down the sun.”
December 18, 2017
"Life in Suspension" in The Creative Process, with an interview!
http://www.creativeprocess.info/other...
The title poem "Life in Suspension" from my recent collection from Salmon Poetry, winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry, the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry, the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry, and the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book
, along with an interview with Mia Funk, in The Creative Process:
http://www.creativeprocess.info/other...
The title poem "Life in Suspension" from my recent collection from Salmon Poetry, winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry, the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry, the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry, and the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book
, along with an interview with Mia Funk, in The Creative Process:http://www.creativeprocess.info/other...
November 11, 2017
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."
—
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."
—
Antonio D’Alfonso, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 22, Vol. 11, No. 2
November 9, 2017
Antonio D'Alfonso reviews Life in Suspension in The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 22, Vol. 11, No. 2
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.
—Antonio D’Alfonso, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 22, Vol. 11, No. 2
—Antonio D’Alfonso, The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 22, Vol. 11, No. 2
June 26, 2017
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...
Stephen Parrish and everyone at The Lascaux Review.http://lascauxreview.com/contest-resu...
June 9, 2017
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona in World Literature Today
Dreaming the World in Translation: A Conversation with Hélène Cardona. Interview by Alison Williams in World Literature Today:
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/...
"When you understand and know other cultures, you don’t fear the other. There is no other. We should be shepherds of the Earth."
"Translation is necessary to know oneself—to know where one comes from. Every language is a key into the psyche of its people."
"Through translation, we bring cultures together, we create bridges. Becoming familiar with another culture transcends otherness. We are many and diverse."
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/...
"When you understand and know other cultures, you don’t fear the other. There is no other. We should be shepherds of the Earth."
"Translation is necessary to know oneself—to know where one comes from. Every language is a key into the psyche of its people."
"Through translation, we bring cultures together, we create bridges. Becoming familiar with another culture transcends otherness. We are many and diverse."
May 23, 2017
Life in Suspension wins the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry!
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) wins the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry!
So very grateful 💕 Hélène
"Life in Suspension is a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
—The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Life in Suspension is a tour de force of language and phonetics; a deeply felt and deeply spiritual collection which explores the universal human experience from a very personal point of view."
—Joanne Harris, best-selling author of Chocolat
So very grateful 💕 Hélène
"Life in Suspension is a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
—The Washington Independent Review of Books "Life in Suspension is a tour de force of language and phonetics; a deeply felt and deeply spiritual collection which explores the universal human experience from a very personal point of view."
—Joanne Harris, best-selling author of Chocolat
