Hélène Cardona

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Hélène Cardona received her MA in American literature from the Sorbonne and has authored five translations and three collections. Her awards include the Independent Press and International Book Awards. She worked as a translator for the Canadian Embassy, taught at Hamilton College and Loyola Marymount University, and received the Royal Society of Arts Translation Diploma (Cambridge).

  • A close-up photograph looking down the keyboard of a piano, run through a digital filter that makes it appear to be a watercolor painting toward the edges

    The Piano

    By Lea Nagy
    November 2022
    Lea Nagy
    In your living room was a bone-colored piano. In boredom we pressed a key. We even sang. Do you remember? You know, just so something fills your rented apartment in Buda, and recovers its mo…
  • Antonio Canova (1757–1822), detail of Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, marble, MR 1777, Musée du Louvre, Paris / © 2010 Musée du Louvre / Raphaël Chipault.

    “Our bodies are wild swans . . .”

    April 7, 2015 Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
    Antonio Canova (1757–1822), detail of Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, marble, MR 1777, Musée du Louvre, Paris / © 2010 Musée du Louvre / Raphaël Chipault. Editorial note: Click her…