Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, the 2017 International Book Award in Poetry, the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book and the Readers' Favorite Book Award in Poetry. Finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award, the 2016 Julie Suk Award (best poetry collection from an independent press) and the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry. 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