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).
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...