Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

Hélène Cardona is a poet, translator and actor, the recipient of over 20 honors & awards, including the Independent Press Award, a Hemingway Grant and an Albertine and Face Foundation grant. Her books include Life in Suspension and Dreaming My Animal Selves (both Salmon Poetry) and the translations The Abduction (Maram Al-Masri, White Pine Press), Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, Salmon Poetry), Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press), Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux, Éditions du Cygne), and Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings (University of Iowa's WhitmanWeb). Her work has been translated into 17 languages. She holds an MA in American Literature from the Sorbonne, worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy, and taught at Hamilton College and Loyola Marymount University.

RICHARD WILBUR, one of America's most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.