Helene Cardona's Blog, page 5
May 18, 2017
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.
May 3, 2017
Jonathan Taylor interviews Hélène Cardona on Everybody's Reviewing
So grateful to Jonathan Taylor for this in depth interview on
Everybody's Reviewing:
http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.c...
We discuss poetry, linguistics, dreams, myth, the arts, translation, acting, and more.
Everybody's Reviewing: http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.c...
We discuss poetry, linguistics, dreams, myth, the arts, translation, acting, and more.
April 11, 2017
Reading at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 22 @ 1:40 PM
Hélène Cardona conceives poetry as « a gesture, a movement, an opening towards a greater truth or understanding ».
http://frenchculture.org/books/events...
I'll read from "Life In Suspension / La Vie Suspendue" and "Dreaming My Animal Selves /
Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales" in English and in French, as well as my translation Beyond Elsewhere (by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac), winner of a Hemingway Grant.
Huge thanks to the French Consulate in Los Angeles and the Cultural Services | French Embassy in the US for listing my event at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 22 @ 1:40 PM. On the Poetry Stage.
http://frenchculture.org/books/events...
I'll read from "Life In Suspension / La Vie Suspendue" and "Dreaming My Animal Selves /
Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales" in English and in French, as well as my translation Beyond Elsewhere (by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac), winner of a Hemingway Grant.Huge thanks to the French Consulate in Los Angeles and the Cultural Services | French Embassy in the US for listing my event at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 22 @ 1:40 PM. On the Poetry Stage.
March 8, 2017
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry)
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry)
http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.p...
"Hélène Cardona’s poems offer a vivid self-portrait as
scholar, seer and muse"
~John Ashbery
http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.p...
"Hélène Cardona’s poems offer a vivid self-portrait as
scholar, seer and muse"~John Ashbery
January 13, 2017
Review of Life in Suspension by Anthony DiMatteo in The Los Angeles Review
Review of Life in Suspension by Anthony DiMatteo in The Los Angeles Review:
"Cardona creates semantic nuances that light up in multiple directions, while her writing pays close heed to the base level of syntax, rhythm, line and sentence. A tender, pensile world that merits repeated line by line explorations
:
Read the full review:
http://losangelesreview.org/book-revi...
"Cardona creates semantic nuances that light up in multiple directions, while her writing pays close heed to the base level of syntax, rhythm, line and sentence. A tender, pensile world that merits repeated line by line explorations
: Read the full review:
http://losangelesreview.org/book-revi...
December 28, 2016
CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS: HÉLÈNE CARDONA … POETRY IS LANGUAGE FOR THE INEFFABLE
Check out my interview with Jamie Dedes in The Poet by Day, with excerpts from Dreaming My Animal Selves and Life in Suspension:
https://jamiededes.com/2016/12/22/cel...
CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS (27): HÉLÈNE CARDONA … POETRY IS LANGUAGE FOR THE INEFFABLE, WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE…
https://jamiededes.com/2016/12/22/cel...
CELEBRATING AMERICAN SHE-POETS (27): HÉLÈNE CARDONA … POETRY IS LANGUAGE FOR THE INEFFABLE, WHAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE…
December 22, 2016
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...
November 4, 2016
NOV. 7, 2016: Reading the World Conversation Series: Hélène Cardona & Dennis Maloney in Rochester, New York
Poetry, Translation, Prizes & Publishing
Come hear renowned poet, translator, actress, and recent PEN USA translation prize judge Hélène Cardona ("Life in Suspension," "Beyond Elsewhere") and poet and publisher Dennis Maloney (White Pine Press) read from their work and discuss the process of bringing international poetry to readers.
Hosted by Chad W. Post and Open Letter Books.
Venue:
ButaPub
315 Gregory St.
Rochester, NY 14620
Free and open to the public - Food and refreshments available
http://www.openletterbooks.org/blogs/...
"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
Hélène Cardona's most recent books include the Award-Winning "Dreaming My Animal Selves" (Salmon Poetry), and the
Hemingway Grant recipient "Beyond Elsewhere" (White Pine Press). She also translated Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings for the Iowa International Writing Program’s WhitmanWeb. Her own work has been translated into 13 languages, including Romanian, Italian, Arabic, Macedonian, Serbian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Hindi. She also co-edits "Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics," is Co-International Editor of "Plume," and contributes articles to numerous literary joiurnals and magazines.
Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published including "The Map Is Not the Territory: Poems & Translations" and "Just Enough." His book "Listening to Tao Yuan Ming" was recently published by Glass Lyre Press. A bilingual German/English volume, "Empty Cup," will appear in Germany in 2017. His works of translation include: "The Stones of Chile" by Pablo Neruda," "The Landscape of Castile" by Antonio Machado, "Between the Floating Mist:Poems of Ryokan," and the "The Poet and the Sea" by Juan Ramon Jimenez. He is also the editor and publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY. and divides his time between Buffalo, NY and Big Sur, CA.
Come hear renowned poet, translator, actress, and recent PEN USA translation prize judge Hélène Cardona ("Life in Suspension," "Beyond Elsewhere") and poet and publisher Dennis Maloney (White Pine Press) read from their work and discuss the process of bringing international poetry to readers.
Hosted by Chad W. Post and Open Letter Books.
Venue:
ButaPub
315 Gregory St.
Rochester, NY 14620
Free and open to the public - Food and refreshments available
http://www.openletterbooks.org/blogs/...
"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
Hélène Cardona's most recent books include the Award-Winning "Dreaming My Animal Selves" (Salmon Poetry), and the
Hemingway Grant recipient "Beyond Elsewhere" (White Pine Press). She also translated Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings for the Iowa International Writing Program’s WhitmanWeb. Her own work has been translated into 13 languages, including Romanian, Italian, Arabic, Macedonian, Serbian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Hindi. She also co-edits "Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics," is Co-International Editor of "Plume," and contributes articles to numerous literary joiurnals and magazines.Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been published including "The Map Is Not the Territory: Poems & Translations" and "Just Enough." His book "Listening to Tao Yuan Ming" was recently published by Glass Lyre Press. A bilingual German/English volume, "Empty Cup," will appear in Germany in 2017. His works of translation include: "The Stones of Chile" by Pablo Neruda," "The Landscape of Castile" by Antonio Machado, "Between the Floating Mist:Poems of Ryokan," and the "The Poet and the Sea" by Juan Ramon Jimenez. He is also the editor and publisher of the widely respected White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY. and divides his time between Buffalo, NY and Big Sur, CA.
November 2, 2016
Poetry from "Chronic Heart" by Eric Sarner, translated by Hélène Cardona, in The Brooklyn Rail’s InTranslation
Poetry from "Chronic Heart" by Eric Sarner, winner of the Prix Max Jacob 2014, translated by Hélène Cardona, in The Brooklyn Rail’s InTranslation:
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org...
Translator's Note:
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org...
Translator's Note:
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org
October 22, 2016
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.
) in the magical anthology LIVE ENCOUNTERS-POETRY:http://liveencounters.net/live-encoun...
Beautiful editorial and poems from The Mind (Salmon Poetry) by John FitzGerald.
