Helene Cardona's Blog, page 6
October 10, 2016
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...
September 11, 2016
Guy Sangster-Adams's soulful review of Life in Suspension in The Cultural Pick
Guy Sangster-Adams's soulful review of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) in Plectrum - The Cultural Pick:
"Extraordinarily, magically, poignantly, I could have sworn just as I finished reading Hélène Cardona’s latest poetry collection and was switching on my laptop to write this review that I could faintly hear a lone piper playing Flowers of the Forest..."
Read the whole review:
http://theculturalpick.com/wordpress/...
"Extraordinarily, magically, poignantly, I could have sworn just as I finished reading Hélène Cardona’s latest poetry collection and was switching on my laptop to write this review that I could faintly hear a lone piper playing Flowers of the Forest..."
Read the whole review:
http://theculturalpick.com/wordpress/...
September 4, 2016
Life in Suspension is a 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in Poetry!
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) just won the Readers Favorite Award in Poetry!
It is a 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in Poetry!
"This is a collection of poetry to be savored slowly and enjoyed again and again."
—Readers' Favorite, 5 Star Review
“You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.”
From Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (Salmon Poetry)
“I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
It is a 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in Poetry!
"This is a collection of poetry to be savored slowly and enjoyed again and again."
—Readers' Favorite, 5 Star Review
“You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.”
From Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (Salmon Poetry)
“I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
August 27, 2016
Life in Suspension wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book.
Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) wins the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book.
"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
Check out the full review:
http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...
"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 Check out the full review:
http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...
August 18, 2016
Fabulous review of LIFE IN SUSPENSION in The Washington Independent Review of Books
Delighted and deeply grateful to
Grace Cavalieri for her fabulous review of LIFE IN SUSPENSION (Salmon Poetry, 2016) in The Washington Independent Review of Books:
"Cardona distills minutes and crystallizes images...This is poetry with layers of complexity made of lace — a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...
Grace Cavalieri for her fabulous review of LIFE IN SUSPENSION (Salmon Poetry, 2016) in The Washington Independent Review of Books:"Cardona distills minutes and crystallizes images...This is poetry with layers of complexity made of lace — a magic carpet ride, not like anything else around."
http://www.washingtonindependentrevie...
August 6, 2016
"Low Altitude" in the gorgeous Aug/Sept issue of The London Magazine
The gorgeous Aug/Sept issue of The London Magazine is out, with my poem "Low Altitude" from Life in Suspension (
Salmon Poetry, 2016):
http://www.thelondonmagazine.org/arti...
Do you know that The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical? It was founded in 1732.
Salmon Poetry, 2016):http://www.thelondonmagazine.org/arti...
Do you know that The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical? It was founded in 1732.
July 7, 2016
Read "Pathway to Gifts"
"The dream opens forgotten realms of creation.
I think that’s what time is."
~Helene Cardona
From Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry)
Read "Pathway to Gifts" from Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry) in the magical inspirational Abracadabra Tarot:
http://ramartin-rudy.blogspot.com
I think that’s what time is."
~Helene Cardona
From Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry)
Read "Pathway to Gifts" from Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry) in the magical inspirational Abracadabra Tarot:
http://ramartin-rudy.blogspot.com
June 23, 2016
Read and listen to the poem "Embers"
Read and listen to the poem "Embers" from "Life in Suspension"
now live on Terrain.org:
"I map the mathematical universe, forge
equations into stellar winds..."
http://www.terrain.org/2016/poetry/he...
now live on Terrain.org:"I map the mathematical universe, forge
equations into stellar winds..."
http://www.terrain.org/2016/poetry/he...
June 18, 2016
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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June 7, 2016
Goodreads giveaway for Life in Suspension
To celebrate the release of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry) I've created a Goodreads giveaway:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
"Life in Suspension is a love song, a hymn to goodness and beauty."
—La Cause Littéraire
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
"Dappled with transparent imagery, like the Mediterranean sunlight shegrew up with, Hélène Cardona's poems offer a vivid self-portrait as scholar,seer and muse."
—John Ashbery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and MacArthur "Genius" Grant
"Hélène Cardona's poems explore the roiling mysteries on the indistinct borderlines of
spiritual landscapes, natural elements, and singular private visions. Surprising, upsetting and, ultimately, uplifting."
—Lawrence Kasdan, Oscar nominated director and screenwriter, Star Wars, The Big Chill, Grand Canyon
"Hélène Cardona keenly understands poetry's insistence that we slow down, downshifting into a more measured and conscious pace. Her powerful poems are written line by certain line, which is how her readers gratefully experience them."
—Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
"The poems are wonderful and in so many ways continue the vision and conversation of my favorite poet, the DH Lawrence of Birds, Beasts & Flowers."
—Donald Revell, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Lenore Marshall Award
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
"Life in Suspension is a love song, a hymn to goodness and beauty."
—La Cause Littéraire
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
"Dappled with transparent imagery, like the Mediterranean sunlight shegrew up with, Hélène Cardona's poems offer a vivid self-portrait as scholar,seer and muse."
—John Ashbery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and MacArthur "Genius" Grant
"Hélène Cardona's poems explore the roiling mysteries on the indistinct borderlines of
spiritual landscapes, natural elements, and singular private visions. Surprising, upsetting and, ultimately, uplifting."—Lawrence Kasdan, Oscar nominated director and screenwriter, Star Wars, The Big Chill, Grand Canyon
"Hélène Cardona keenly understands poetry's insistence that we slow down, downshifting into a more measured and conscious pace. Her powerful poems are written line by certain line, which is how her readers gratefully experience them."
—Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
"The poems are wonderful and in so many ways continue the vision and conversation of my favorite poet, the DH Lawrence of Birds, Beasts & Flowers."
—Donald Revell, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Lenore Marshall Award
