![]() ![]() French and English versions of poems sit side by side. ![]() ![]() It is a book that, as you can probably tell by its title, is bilingual. In other words, the kind of shameless over-achieving stuff that makes one human being hate another human being with hopeless furious jealousy. We find that for the movie Serendipity she also wrote and sang the song Lucienne. We find that, besides being a teacher and poet, she is an actor, having starred in movies such as Chocolat and Happy Feet 2. Reading the biography at the end of Hélène Cardona’s Dreaming My Animal Selves/Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales (Salmon Poetry, 2013) we find that she is a citizen of three countries, with accompanying languages (United States, France, Spain (but also fluent in German, Italian and Greek)), that she has taught both French and Spanish, translated Baudelaire and Rimbaud as well as her father, Jose Manuel Cardona, and holds a Master’s in American Literature. ![]()
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