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Alvaro Cardona-Hine
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The Song Less/on
“Some of the best ever written . . .” –Tom McGrath in The National Guardian reviewing the haiku in The Gathering Wave. “Cardona-Hine is far more tuned to silence than Eliot; there are no phases to his theology. He offers no disciplines, nor even Zen vacancies; he offers arrivals . . . This gentle poet has little to do with the hysterical attenuated surrealism which has in recent years dominated the better little magazines. Or with archetypes of the Great Mother or other theorizing . . . It is understandable that poets want to move out into the universe, to dream of being moles, to sink into mineral veins, to make wild dissociated images that dissolve the self. But Cardona-Hine preserves the sense of human self-hood, human wonder, adventure.”–Benjamin Saltzman in Kayak reviewing Words On Paper.
High Watermark Salo[o]n
With art by Alvaro Cardona-Hine.
Honey in Old Wine Bottles
Honey in Old Wine Bottles is a collection of short stories written over many years by well-known author Alvaro Cardona-Hine. They vary both in theme and locations, some comic, some serious; some set in the U.S., others in Cardona-Hine's native Costa Rica or other locales. As can be expected by readers familiar with Cardona-Hine's writing, the language entrances with its imagery and accuracy. The stories themselves have appeared in various literary journals over the years. For other books by Cardona-Hine, go to AlbaBooksPress.com.
A History of Light
Do you remember your first love? A History of Light, a memoir, by Alvaro Cardona-Hine, is set in 1930's Costa Rica and written in a series of translucent meditations that shimmer with a tenderness as irresistible as memory itself. This glimpse of a different world and a young boy awakening to his own heart is sensual yet profoundly innocent.
Miss O'Keeffe
In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia O’Keeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older woman. This intimate account of the year of Patten’s employment offers a rare glimpse of O’Keeffe’s daily life when she could no longer see well enough to paint.
Words on Paper
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The Recumbent Galaxy
Poetry. Art. This collaborative collection of poems by Alvaro Cardona-Hine and George Kalamaras also includes cover art and five additional paintings (reproduced in color) by Cardona-Hine, who--besides being a poet--is a noted visual artist who (with his wife Barbara) owns and operates the Cardona-Hine Gallery in Truchas, New Mexico. "Kalamaras & Cardona-Hine dance an Aleteo--a poetics of fluttering back/forward & into/ against spiritual paths. The koans of Zen, the parables of Kafka & the doubles of Borges boom-crash & whirl with intimacy & Bigmind--memory, desire & investigation, a mad rush toward the bliss of the Void. Yet, there is a contrapuntal friendship amiably floating & laughing into 'electrical storms' of history. Emperor Mu, Wittgenstein & 'a taxidermist from Toledo named Tom' border-cross into each other. There is love. Suddenly, impossibly--an unnamable someone kisses your hands as you read. A timely & revolutionary collaboration"--Juan Felipe Herrera.
Thirteen Tangos for Stravinsky
Los Angeles of the 1940's is the setting for this vivid coming of age memoir.
The Curvature of the Earth
On a journey to Madrid, Gene Frumkin and Alvaro Cardona-Hine decided to collaborate on a collection of poetry written about and in various parts of the world while tapping into their sources of inspiration and basic existential concerns. Guided by their respective muses, Frumkin and Cardona-Hine produced The Curvature of the Earth, a volume that enhances their contrasting styles and celebratory views of existence. The Curvature of the Earth contains poems written in Holland, Spain, Tuscany, and Hawai'i, and commemorates the collaborative power of two poets at the height of their talents.
