Marie-Claire Bancquart & Wendeline Hardenberg: Terre/ Earth, from “With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth, poems”.

“Exile is there, exile is plain/ everywhere…” TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: “I discovered Marie-Claire Bancquart in an anthology of 20th-century French poets during my first literary translation workshop in graduate school. I was immediately drawn to her language and her imagery—the way she brought ordinary things into her poems and elevated them to the same status as…Read more Marie-Claire Bancquart & Wendeline Hardenberg: Terre/ Earth, from “With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth, poems”.

Joan-Carles Martí I Casanova & Jan S. Reinhart: Tankas from “Milanta tankes I una elegia”

Translating tankas from the Valencian by Jan S. Reinhart After publishing his experimental fantasy novel Els paísos del tallamar in 2014, Joan-Carles Martí I Casanova decided to focus his literary efforts in poetry. Over the next few years he wrote Milanta tankes I una elegia (A Myriad of Tankas and an Elegy). It comprises five…Read more Joan-Carles Martí I Casanova & Jan S. Reinhart: Tankas from “Milanta tankes I una elegia”

Gérard de Nerval & Michael Wooff: A tale of the Valois, La Reine des poissons/ The Queen of the fish

"For me Gérard de Nerval, who killed himself in Paris at the age of 46, is the 19th century’s French literary equivalent of Vincent van Gogh and, on his good days, shared the brightness of the latter’s vision. I once had a go at translating what most people would think of as his prose masterpiece,…Read more Gérard de Nerval & Michael Wooff: A tale of the Valois, La Reine des poissons/ The Queen of the fish